Melodie Yashar is a space architect, technologist, and researcher. Melodie\u2019s work focuses on the development of construction technologies to build off-world habitats and ensure a permanent human presence on the Moon and eventually Mars. She is the Director of Building Design & Performance at ICON, a construction technologies company focused on large scale additive manufacturing for Earth and in space. Her department supports design and construction of dignified and resilient terrestrial housing solutions, in addition to development of off-world construction systems. Melodie teaches undergraduate and graduate design courses at Art Center College of Design. In previous roles Melodie was a Senior Research Associate with the Human Systems Integration Division at NASA Ames via San Jose State University Research Foundation, as well as a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a research group developing human supporting designs for space exploration. Her background is in industrial design, architecture, and human-computer interaction with an emphasis in robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4413,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4407","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n