Mars
The Red Mirror
This exhibition looks at our relationship with Mars, from antiquity to the present day. Science, art and literature come together in a major exhibition project that coincides in time with the arrival of three space missions to the Red Planet. Mars. The Red Mirror explores our condition and future as a species and the ultimate nature of the universe we live in.
The ISSS and Mars Exploration Research in the Southeast Asian Context
Venzha Christ
An alternative viewpoint on science and space exploration in equatorial and tropical island nations.
Frictions in Reality
Elisabet Roselló
A reflection on the meaning of what is plausible in times of climate change and technological acceleration.
Greetings from Mars
Culturnautes 2021: week 2
What stories would we tell if we went spent our holidays on Mars? Would they be different to the ones on Earth? What would its inhabitants and the landscape be like? The Pink Pixel Collective (Sílvia Martínez, Marina Sáez, Ives Laborie and Zeta) invites us on an experimental five-day journey through illustrated storytelling and collaborative creation.
Concert by Nico Roig, with Lucia Fumero and David Soler
Martian Heart
The singer and composer Nico Roig re-creates, live, the music he has composed for the exhibition Mars: The Red Mirror and embarks on a sound journey that moves through history from the metamorphoses of the planet to the strange Martian landscapes captured by recent space missions. ...
Mission Curiosity: If planets could speak to each other, Earth would tell Mars not to accept humans.
Response from Andrea Butturini
Human beings have caused climate change, and after destroying Earth, are looking for a chance of survival on Mars. But our host planet should be saying to Mars: Humans are not a very recommendable people! Primary school children that have visited the ‘Mars: The Red Mirror’ exhibition ...
Juan Insua: "The exhibition is a cultural history of Mars".
Interview to the curator of "Mars. The red mirror"
The curator and cultural programmer Juan Insua explains some of the secrets and stories behind this exhibition on the past, present and future of Mars. The exhibition, which can be visited until 11 July 2021 in Barcelona, has already been visited by more than 50,000 people.
“Mission Curiosity”: What if we go to Mars and there are Martians and we didn't spot them before?
María de Soria and Gabi Martínez give their answers
Are we sure that Mars is a lifeless planet? And what kind of life are we talking about? In this video, aerospace engineer María de Soria and writer and journalist Gabi Martínez reveal their answers. Primary school children that visited the "Mars. The red mirror" exhibition asked ...
“Mission Curiosity”: Why do we want to go to Mars and not to other planets?
Ricard Solé and Raül Garrigasait give their answers.
Why are we more attracted to the red planet than any other? In this video, physicist and biologist Ricard Solé and writer and Hellenist Raül Garrigasait share their answers. Primary school children that visited the "Mars. The red mirror" exhibition asked us many questions and gave ...
“Mission Curiosity”: Could we be moving from one planet to another?
Ariadna Farres and Miguel Pajares give their answers.
Do we want to be planetary climate refugees? In this video, mathematician Ariadna Farres and anthropologist Miguel Pajares share their answers. Primary school children that visited the "Mars. The red mirror" exhibition asked us many questions and gave plenty of comments! Now, scientists, architects, ...
Martian Waves. Science, literature, and live radio
Recording of a live podcast
Closing festivities of the "ALIA Mission", an educational project relating popularisation of science with literary and artistic creation, with the conversation of the astrophysicist Fatoumata Kébé with Miquel Sureda, and the recording of a live podcast with the schools and scientists involved.
Mission Curiosity: Could we go to Mars, let the Earth recover and then come back?
Gisela Detrell and Yayo Herrero give their answer
Could we go to Mars, let the Earth recover and then come back? In this video, aerospace engineer Gisela Detrell and anthropologist and ecofeminist activist Yayo Herrero give us their answer. Primary school children that visited the "Mars. The red mirror" exhibition asked us many questions and ...
Mission Curiosity: Could children and animals go to Mars and adults stay here?
Alfredo Muñoz and Maria Ptqk give their answers
Could only children and animals go to the red planet and the adults stay on Earth? In this video, architect Alfredo Muñoz and cultural researcher Maria Ptqk provide us with their answer. Primary school children that visited the "Mars. The red mirror" exhibition asked us many questions ...
The series that explore Mars
Serielizados
We take a look at the main recent series to have explored Mars.
Laia Ribas
La vida en hàbitats extrems
Life on our planet faces imminent problems: in the midst of climate change and on the threshold of an ecological emergency. Could the Earth, in this situation, continue to be the cradle of Humanity in the future? Laia Ribas, a marine science researcher who has recently participated in ...
Inés Macpherson
Sistemes de suport vital en una base marciana. Imaginar des de la ciència ficció.
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Miquel Sureda
Peaceful exploration, settlement and exploitation of the space
Elon Musk affirms that "we have a moral obligation to colonize space to guarantee the continuity of the human species." But do we really have the right to do so? Miquel Sureda, physicist and aeronautical engineer specialized in space propulsion, spoke about peaceful exploration, colonization ...
Guillem Anglada-Escudé
Designing a Sustainable Martian City: The Nüwa Case
For thousands of years, human beings have had the will to explore further and try to know their place in the universe. Now it is known that he is considering the option that the planet Mars could be the next great leap to found a civilization. The first year high school students from the Institut ...
Carme Jordi
Expansion through the galaxy and terraforming
Exploitation of natural resources, ecological footprint, overpopulation ... How many planets are necessary to maintain our lifestyle? Stephen Hawking was convinced that the solution is to inhabit other worlds and Mars is undoubtedly the closest terrestrial analog. Is this really the solution ...
Míriam Cano, Toni Pou, Joan Fontcuberta, and Toni Soler
A Swarm of Worlds
On the occasion of the publication of the latest issue of the magazine El Món d’Ahir, devoted to the cosmos, the poet Míriam Cano, the physicist and journalist Toni Pou, and the artist and essayist Joan Fontcuberta discuss, in a conversation moderated by the magazine’s editor Toni Soler, the shared imaginaries engendered by fascination with the universe.
Ignasi Ribas
Cerca de vida, consciència alienígena i civilitzacions
Is there life outside of planet Earth? Has Mars been inhabited? What does "technological civilization" or "intelligent" mean? How could we communicate on an interstellar scale? The 4th year ESO students at Col·legi Sant Gabriel have worked for weeks around these and many other questions. Thursday, April 8, they were able to share them with Ignacio Ribas, the director of the Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and an expert in exoplanet research and instrumentation for the discovery and characterization of new Earth-like planets. ...
Art on Mars: from the optimism of Space Art to the capitalist logic of contemporary art
Déborah Camañes
With their work, artists anticipate and prefigure the fundamental questions surrounding the future of humanity and its drift.
Mars, feminism and popular culture
Elisa McCausland
In this podcast, the critic and researcher Elisa McCausland conflates the relationship between Mars, feminism and pop culture from the 1950s to the present day.
Inside the red mirror
Juan Insua
This is a virtual space where you can imagine your own view of Mars: god, symbol and planet in its different metamorphoses. You may have visited the exhibition or simply clicked on to this page skipping between links and other everyday internet browsings. It depends on how much time you want ...
Carme Jordi and Xavier Luri
Mars: Cosmos
A conversation between the astrophysicists Carme Jordi and Xavier Luri about the latest advances in observation of space and the big questions about the cosmos that are yet to be answered.
Miquel Sureda, Mariona Badenas, Laura Benítez and Ignasi Ribas
Mars: Testing
The physicist and engineer Miquel Sureda, the astrophysicist and MIT researcher Mariona Badenas, and the philosopher Laura Benítez speak in a session moderated by the astrophysicist Ignasi Ribas about space as territory for scientific speculation and testing.
Ricard Solé and Guillem Anglada-Escudé
Mars: Frontier
Professor Ricard Solé (UPF-ICREA), an expert in complex systems analysis and synthetic biology, speaks with the astrophysicist Guillem Anglada-Escudé (UB), co-founder of the Nüwa project, about space exploration as the last frontier of science which will possibly mark a new stage for humanity.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars: Utopia
The writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy speaks with the cultural researcher José Luis de Vicente about space as a driver of contemporary utopian thought.
Cristian Tolsa: “In the great ancient Mediterranean cultures, the planets were associated with gods”
Interview with the philologist and historian
Philologist and historian Cristian Tolsa looks at the importance of Mars in ancient civilisations. Nergal in Mesopotamia, Horemakhet in Egypt, Ares in ancient Greece and Mars in Rome, the divinities associated with the red planet follow a similar line yet also differ in certain aspects and qualities...
Guillem Anglada-Escudé: “The next step is to integrate space into planetary civilisation"
Interview with the astrophysicist
Guillem Anglada, an astrophysicist, proposes the development of a space economy in Earth's orbit, avoiding the nationalistic and escapist intentions of some space explorations. Based on this idea, he talks about the SONet project (The Sustainable Offworld Network), which investigates how to ...
Ignasi Ribas: "The Holy Grail of all this exploration on Mars is the search for life, present or past"
Interview with the astrophysicist
The astrophysicist Ignasi Ribas talks about the main past, present and future technologies for exploration on Mars. What current programmes are there? What are their objectives? What are they exploring? What technology do they use? Ribas answers these questions in this interview for the CCCB ...
Jordi Principal: “War is a ritualised manifestation of violence”
Interview with the curator of the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia
In the past, war could have been the natural state of human beings. Jordi Principal, curator of the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, explains how, in ancient times, a good part of the economic and social system was based on conflict. Thus, war became ritualised violence. This interview is from ...
Daniele Porretta: "Writers mapped out all their desires and also their fears on Mars"
Interview with the architect and professor of design
In this interview, conducted as part of the CCCB exhibition "Mars. The Red Mirror", architect and professor of design Daniele Porretta reviews the construction and development of the collective imaginary surrounding Mars. Porretta draws on early scientific observations and on some literary ...
Francesc Gòdia: "The goal is to build planetary bases where humans can reside for long periods of time"
Interview with the chemist and researcher
Chemist and researcher Francisco Gòdia discusses the MELiSSA project, a European Space Agency facility that aims to develop life support in space, recreate an ecological cycle and provide the basic functions for human life on an alien planet in a sustainable way. What technology do they use? What is their inspiration? What are their objectives? What difficulties do they encounter? Gòdia, director of the MELiSSA pilot site, reveals some of the secrets behind this innovative project. ...
Guillem Anglada, Mariona Badenas, Ignasi Casanova and Miquel Sureda
The landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars
The 18th of February 2022 we lived a world-class scientific happening at the CCCB. The experts Guillem Anglada, Mariona Badenas, Ignasi Casanova and Miquel Sureda commented minute by minute on the risky landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars. They offered information and data to help understand ...
Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World
Toni Navarro
Climate emergency is forcing us to harness our ability to intervene in planetary processes and direct it at repairing the damage caused to the planet.
«Mars.The Red Mirror» Audiovisual Report
This exhibition looks at our relationship with Mars, from antiquity to the present day. Science, art and literature come together in a major exhibition project that coincides in time with the arrival of three space missions to the Red Planet. Mars. The Red Mirror explores ...
Martian cartoon strips
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
Through comics, we analyse the evolution of our view of the Red Planet: from a territory to be conquered, to a reflection of our own nature.