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Key to any successful Mars community will be arriving at realistic, workable solutions to basic challenges such as getting sufficient clean air, water, and food on Mars; creating adequate living and working spaces; and, determining which occupations are necessary to sustain life for 100 people on another planet.
Participants will confront and resolve three essential questions as they fulfill the project's assignment.
- What makes a good community?
- What gives life meaning?
- What does it take to survive?
These questions take into account basic human needs, but they also inspire in-depth analysis and discussion of other essentials, such as artistic, expressive, psychological, and relationship needs that enrich and give greater meaning to life.
Students will thoughtfully consider these issues and arrive at what is important to them. This reflection will give them food for thought not only throughout the course of the project, but long after the project comes to an end.
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