The Moving to Mars exhibition, which opens tomorrow at London's Design Museum, explores putting humans on the red planet as the final frontier for design.
The show is structured into five parts: Imagining Mars, The Voyage, Survival, Mars Futures and Down to Earth.
It explores themes including the role that design plays in keeping astronauts safe during the voyage to Mars, and what working with its limited resources could teach us about designing more sustainably on Earth.
Moving to Mars opens to the public on the 18 October
"We don't advocate for Mars as a Planet B," said the exhibition's curator and Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk.
"But we pose the question of whether the rigours required in such an inhospitable environment ? where we'll have to recycle our oxygen, recycle our water and reuse our waste to survive ? might force us to solve those problems on Earth," he continued. "Here, despite everything, we can all still get up and go through our day and not change anything. You cannot do that if you're sending someone to Mars because they wouldn't last one minute."
NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars in August 2012. Image is courtesy of NASA
How survival on Mars might become possible is explored through more than 200 exhibits.
These consist of a combination of original artefacts from the likes of NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX, alongside new commissions and immersive installations by Konstantin Grcic and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
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