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July 10th, 2016
Mars Research Facility by Matt Jennings.
The closing hours of a Kickstarter campaign are near a hand, an effort to raise funds to back a workshop on designing a sustainable city on Mars.
This unique workshop will be hosted at the University of Southern California (USC), on September 15-28th, 2016.
Wanted: thinkers and innovators
Workshop participants include competing finalists of a worldwide Mars City Design 2016 challenge, including teams from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Ares Astronautics, and others.
“It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive,” explains Vera Mulyani, Founder & CEO of Mars City Design. To sustainably live on the Red Planet, “we call on a new generation of thinkers and innovators to make this a reality.”
Courtesy: Mars City Design
Off planet urbanism
Student category contestants come from MIT, CMU, Ballstate University, University of Virginia and University of Manchester in the UK, Math & Engineering School in Bucharest, and School of Urban Design in Turkey.
Also taking part in Mars City Design activities are professionals from different fields, such as agricultural, innovation, architecture, urbanism, math and engineering experts.
Another objective of the Mars City Design initiative is o build the winning prototypes, by 3D printing and testing them in their real scale in Mojave Desert, within the next 3 years.
Global community
Kickstarter is a global community built around creativity and creative projects. Over 10 million people, from every continent on Earth, have backed a Kickstarter project.
For more information on this Kickstarter project, go to:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marscitydesign/a-city-on-mars
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