Design to Explore - Design to Restore

Many times over, design has shown us that it not only reflects the issues of its time, but that of our future. Te success of the UAE Hope probe to Mars last month reminded me of the 1950s’ Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

Set in first years of 2000, humankind had reached the red planet at a time during which it had put Earth on the brink of extinction due to nuclear war. Funny enough, at the same time the book was released, UFOs were spotted in the skies across the Western World—although this was probably due to an invasion by ‘red’ men from the Eastern Bloc rather than by little green ones from outer space.