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Review [Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet] surveys a century of proposals for resettling adventurers many millions of miles from home. -- Eve Kahn ― New York Times If you can’t get to Mars... you can at least buy this book. Flip through concepts and prototypes that imagine how we might get to the red planet, what we’ll wear on the way, and how far underground we’ll have to build our homes if we expect to keep living. ― New York Magazine: Strategist Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet expands the show’s Martian scope, revealing mankind’s quest to inhabit the red planet as a grandiose, centuries-long exercise of imagination that is now taking shape in design prototypes with proposed target dates in the next few years―or decades, depending on whom you ask. -- Jack Crager ― Common Edge Product Description Designing humanity’s future on the Red Planet: the clothes, cutlery and habitats of everyday life on another world Moving to Mars is the first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars. A comprehensive overview of both past and current developments in space travel and colonization, it begins with the evolution of the space suit and rocket technology; it then proceeds to explore a wide range of fascinating and never-before-seen projects on Mars-specific habitations, covering everything from space-ready cutlery to clothes, furniture and speculative habitats. Illustrated with color images of rarely seen drawings, concepts and prototypes, plus newly commissioned essays by the designers, artists and scientists who are charting the path forward to Mars, this book literally reveals a whole new future for humankind, fleshing out a vision of an everyday reality on another planet. About the Author Justin McGuirk is chief curator at the Design Museum. He has been the design critic of the Guardian, the editor of Icon magazine and the Head of Design Curating and Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He is the author of Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (2014), and co-editor of Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World (2016), California: Designing Freedom (2017) and Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow (2018). Andrew Nahum is a curator and author on the history of technology and design. He has created numerous exhibitions at the Science Museum and recently curated the acclaimed Ferrari: Under the Skin at the Design Museum (2017–2018). His books include Fifty Cars That Changed the World, (2009, 2017), Alec Issigonis and the Mini (2004), Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet (2017) and Ferrari: Under the Skin (2017).Eleanor Watson is assistant curator at the Design Museum. Her previous exhibitions include Beazley Designs of the Year (2017 and 2018) and Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda Revolution (2017). Eleanor is responsible for the museum’s program of free public displays, including the first retrospective of UK architect Peter Barber, ‘100 Mile City and Other Stories’. Outside of her work at the museum, she is acting as curator of the 2019 edition of Global Grad Show. Mike Ashley has been researching and writing about science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years and has compiled over a hundred books including The Age of the Storytellers (2006), Out of This World (1989) and the multi-volume History of the Science Fiction Magazine (1974). He was awarded the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in science fiction research in 2002. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining human relationships with nature and technology. She is lead author of Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature (2014). Better, her PhD from the Royal College of Art, interrogated how powerful dreams of ‘better’ futures shape the things we design. Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar living in New York. She is assistant professor at the Coope