The world on the brink of disaster requires radical solutions. The future of life on Earth depends on developing and implementing a sustainable plan. The Terraforming is a three-year research initiative of the Strelka Institute aimed at fundamentally transforming cities, technologies and ecosystems to ensure the viability of the planet. Artificiality, astronomy and automation form the basis of the alternative planetarity being developed by The Terraforming program. Its main ideas are in the book of the same name by Benjamin Bratton, director of the Institute’s educational program.