Designing a Colony on Mars: A Digital Design Collaboration

The Mars Home Planet project brought together thousands of engineers, designers, and architects to design a colony on the surface of Mars. Sean Young gives us a glimpse.

What might a future colony on Mars look like? More importantly, how will it function? How will it produce food, oxygen, and other necessities for a population of one million? These questions are what the Mars Home Planet project set out to explore. A collaboration between HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk, and thousands of engineers, architects, designers, and artists around the world, the project set out to create real designs for the infrastructure, buildings, tools, and products that inhabitants of the Mars colony would need. The models were then used to create detailed renderings, and ultimately a 15-minute VR experience. Sean Young of HP provides a glimpse of some of the media and shows how industries converged to make the Mars Home Planet project possible.

About the speaker

Sean Young is the director of Global Business Development for the manufacturing industry at NVIDIA. He previously worked for HP’s Global Industry Segment team, and Autodesk’s Product Management team. He holds an MBA from Queen’s University in Canada.

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