Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum. He was formerly the design columnist for The Guardian and editor of Iconmagazine. He is the author of Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (2014), and editor of California: Designing Freedom (2017) and Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow (2018). Alex Newson is Senior Curator at the Design Museum and editor of Designer, Maker, User (2016)
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 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] surveys a century of proposals for resettling adventurers many millions of miles from home.--Eve Kahn New York Times