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Marstopia Architecture Competition
Eleven magazine Design Contest for the first human colony on Mars
15 Nov 2017
Marstopia Design Competition
Marstopia: Call for Entries
Eleven continues their adventures in space by launching an international architecture & design competition on Martian living.
Eleven has announced their latest ideas and design competition ‘Marstopia?, the official sequel to their 2016 award-winning international challenge Moontopia. This latest competition invites creatives from all around the world to imagine Marstopia – the first human colony on Mars – and in doing so, begin to define Martian vernacular design.
image from architectural contest organisers
Today, science fiction dreams of turning mankind into a multi-planetary species are well within our reach. As scientific and technological breakthroughs are fueling a renewed space race, it is becoming increasingly clear that the colonization of Mars is within our lifetime.
In the contemporary discussion of Martian colonization, the focus is predominantly on the science and technological aspects of getting to the Red Planet. As these fields pave the way for Mars to become an opportunity for groundbreaking exploration, where does this leave the creative industries" Despite dates being set for missions to Mars, there is still a huge gap in the field of Martian architecture and extra-terrestrial ...