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MARTIAN SERIES: THRIVE & EXPLOIT


Micro Library Books Martian 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.

Thrive & Exploit, 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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£16.00
from the design museum

Product details for Arrive & Explore:
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  • A beautiful handmade illustrated poetry book created to coincide with the Moving to Mars exhibition.
  • Featuring new illustration and design by artist Lee Shearman and poetry by writer Pip Rowson. 
  • Each copy is giclee printed on 180gsm Xativa paper then concertina-folded by hand. The books are hardbound with card covers and light red-coloured rayon book cloth and finished with a giclee printed belly-band.
  • Dimensions: 35mm x 50mm x 14mm (closed) 35 x 50 x 1088mm (unfurled)
  • Materials: Giclee print on 180 gsm Xativa paper with rayon and card hardbound covers.​​

​Printed by Martel Colour Print
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Looking back at ideas from the past about Mars in the future

“The expectation was that by the dawn of the twenty-first century the solar system would already be conquered and mapped and the galaxy as a whole would be preparing to welcome its discoverers.” 
- from ‘Stellar Epilogue’ in the history of the future, p.120.

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We have a history of imagining what life would be like in the future and this includes living off-world on Mars. Books, documentaries, journals and magazines provide a historical archive of reflections and contemplations about a future of life on Mars. People have written about why, how and when we will get there. Accounts focus on setting a date for our arrival - giving greater weight to this than the subsequent stages of what Martian life may be like for us. Yet our success as a species would depend not just on getting to Mars, but on creating a stable and sustainable existence there. It’s this next chapter of our human story that is the playground for science fiction. Novels, films and comics revel in the Martian dream of how we could flourish on the red planet.

Other books in the Martian Series:

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ARRIVE & EXPLORE
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SURVIVE & EXPAND
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