From a BLDG BLOG post about zero-gravity design, which is necessary to build hotels and other structures in space to lodge and care for a new breed of tourist:

“Given all the justifiable excitement in the past few days about the successful launch of SpaceX, Milan’s Domus Academy is hosting a rather well-timed two-week design intensive this summer called ‘Zero-Gravity Design: Products & Microenvironments for Orbiting Hotels.’

It runs from July 2-13, 2012, and will be taught by ‘aerospace entrepreneur’ Susmita Mohanty.

From the studio brief:

As the race to open up the space frontier to tourists revs up, so will opportunities for designers and architects. The participants of this course will design products and microenvironments for living aboard future Orbiting Hotels. The Space Tourists, will have to, after all, eat, drink, sleep, cleanse, exercise, work, play, improvise, relax, move, stay still, contemplate, congregate, seek privacy and look out of the window. These everyday tasks, and more, open up an infinite range of design possibilities.”