A speculative study of human life on Mars, inspired by antenna geometry.
A speculative graphic design project imagining life on Mars — featuring miniature architectural models, a representative settlement flag, and reimagined everyday objects from earphones to meal-replacement pills. Inspired by antenna geometry and developed at Goldsmiths during a moment of renewed public attention on Mars settlement, the project explores how cities, signage, and daily life might transform if humanity made another planet home.
Speculative Premise
The project began with antennae — the upturned, skeletal structures that have always pointed away from Earth's surface as if anticipating somewhere else. From that single visual cue, the work imagines a future in which human life has settled on Mars, and asks what the architecture, signage, and everyday objects of that life would look like.
Visual Research
References were pulled from antenna design, early colonial photography, and modernist propaganda — each used to think through how a settled population might encode its own founding myths. The visual research was equal parts archive and speculation, more rooted in design history than in science fiction.
Artefact Production
Miniature buildings were laser-cut and assembled, then weathered with paint and clay to suggest age. A representative flag was designed for the settlement, alongside speculative product concepts: earphones tuned for thin atmosphere, pills that replace daily meals, and signage for a Mars-side public realm.
Final Reading
The collected artefacts read as the visual residue of a civilisation that has decided to call somewhere else home. The work does not predict the future of Mars. It asks what the design language of belonging would have to become, if home moved.
