🟡 Sci-fi 🔘 Arch
For as long as we have existed, human beings have looked up at the stars with both wonder and longing, often with more regard than the ground beneath us. It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of our time that we now look to the sky not only for inspiration, but for escape. As we continue to deplete the Earth’s resources, a pressing question emerges: if we fail the planet, where do we go next?
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Interestingly, cinema has long served as a testing ground for such ideas. While often dramatized for effect, sci-fi films offer surprisingly sharp insights into what it takes to live on Mars. They explore everything from structural resilience and closed-loop systems to the psychological impacts of isolation and the importance of community. Some even undertake agriculture (potatoes, anyone?). For architects, science fiction becomes a speculative lab where imagination meets problem-solving and storytelling becomes a tool for prototyping the future.
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