• • Carlos Monleon-Gendall is an artist and designer who recently graduated from Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. Apart from tending his Martian vineyard he is currently working on Víveres, a project on rationing and preserving the world through olfactory sensations between Matadero, Madrid and HIAP, Helsinki. He is also part of BIO 50’s observing space group and is developing a line of Martian tourist wear.

    www.monleon-gendall.com

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  Carlos Monleon-Gendall’s practice between art and science ends up somewhere he calls “culinary materialism”. For the project Martian Terroir he investigated the possibilities of growing earth-plants in space, recreating the “terroir” of Mars to grow Martian grapes and then make Martian wine. As any wine connoisseur knows, the geophysical characteristics of a place such as soil, climate and biodiversity can be tasted in the final product, and by simulating light cycles and minerals in the soil, Monleon-Gendall was able to approximate the way food grown in space might taste and smell.

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  The data that allowed him to calculate these conditions was collected by cutting-edge remote sensing technology that gathers information about distant planets – information he then applied to one of the oldest crafts in the world.
  
  Monleon-Gendall asks: “How would everyday products taste on another planet? Would we need to create new categories for those sensations? What skills, even crafts, would these pioneering humans have to learn to survive off the terrestrial grid?” I (ew)
  
  

  ABouT Carlos Monleon-Gendall

   Image: Steve Gallagher & Carlos Monleon-Gendall

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• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Space
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  uncube goes galactic
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  New World, Old Metaphors

  Interview with Ricardo Scofidio

  Text: Sophie Lovell
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  Galina Balashova

  Space architect extraordinaire

  Text: Philipp Meuser
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Per Artem Ad Astra

  Interview with Michael Najjar

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Life on Mars

  ZA Architects’ plan for living on the Red Planet
• FOUND

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  The Moon Goose Colony

  Agnes Meyer-Brandis trains a flock of astronauts
• ESSAY

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  Memories of the Moon Age

  A Lunar love affair

  Text: Lukas Feireiss
• ESSAY

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  Modular Living

  At home on the ISS

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Space Junk

  Infographic by onlab

  Text: onlab
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  The Last Pictures

  Trevor Paglen's portrait of humanity
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Gold Rush

  The battle for universal mining rights

  Text: Claire L. Evans
• ESSAY

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  Roadmap to the Stars

  On extraterrestrial colonisation and being human

  Text: Herbert Wright
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  High Frontier

  Gerard K. O’Neill's 1977 masterplan
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  Stairways to Heaven

  The star-tracking observatory in Jaipur
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Space Elevator

  Getting high on the cheap...

  Text: Sebastian Schumacher
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  Martian Terroir

  How would space wine taste?
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XIII. Mars attracts!

  Text: Klaus
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