Aerogel Art Attracts Attention

Ioannis Michaloudis must have seemed like an unusual choice of speaker at first. Much of his talk before the scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs gathered in Dallas for the 2024 summit of the Advanced Research Projects-Energy agency was abstract. He spoke of the sky as the planet’s protective garment, floated the idea of making shade clouds from space junk, and characterized his artwork as “biomimicry of the sky.”