MICRO LIBRARY BOOKS: MOVING TO MARS
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To coincide with Moving To Mars Exhibition at The Design Museum I collaborated with Pip Rowson on three miniature illustrated bookworks with each themed around the sections of the exhibition. Arrive & Explore, Survive & Expand and Thrive & Exploit.
The series explores how our earthly ideas of design, language and imagination are not yet fit for purpose for a planet at once familiar and distinct from our own. The illustrations focused on specific areas of research around the idea of traveling to, building into and living upon Mars. |
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Arrive & Explore
This book, the first in the series, encounters Mars as a sea-less sphere, presenting an imagined map inspired by the artwork of Emmy Ingeborg Brun (1872 - 1929), a Danish socialist and amateur astronomer. |
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Survive & Expand
This book, the second in the series, puts forward a blueprint of ideas for terraforming, overcoming initial survival challenges and a plan in case of failure. |
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Thrive & Exploit
This book, the third in the series, presents speculative Martian architecture including buildings imported from Earth and set down on Mars, re-design and re-engineering of our terrestrial way of living, and wholly new creations. |
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