Car I am #Mars Workshop
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Join this interactive workshop with author Eva Ellis and TSL to explore sustainability and the possibility of a future life on Mars
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Buckle Up for the Car I am #Mars workshop journey!
Are you curious about the red planet?
What does life on Mars look like today?
What will life on Mars look like in the future?
What kind of society will humans form on the Red Planet?
How might lifestyles evolve from the Blue Planet Earth to the Red Planet Mars?
What will the daily lifestyle look like on Mars in the future?
Join your pilots Eva Ellis - Author of Car I am #7days and Kirsty Shakespeare - International ESD Manager, Trust for Sustainable Living and their co-pilots from the School of Science and Technology (Texas) on questioning the Red Planet Perspectives and exploring sustainability on Mars. This interactive workshop will feature discussions and presentations on establishing life on Mars and consider the culture and values that we would want to take with us.
Car I am #7days is a futuristic, fantastic (and real) novel by Eva Ellis about friendship, artificial Intelligence, Sustainability and Mars.
Twenty years ago, when the devastating surge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic shook the world with deadly blows, everything changed for humanity and its relationship with technology. It's the year 2040. The post-pandemic world is surprisingly a better world that has curiously united humanity in the spirit of sustainable living and peace. Now, when humans depend even more on technology to live beyond survival, thirteen-year-old, atypical, Deepa finds solace in the comfortable memory foam seats of an old Tesla DVT Model III smart car—a driverless family car her family simply likes to call Car.
Deepa likes to live in her own tiny world of electronics in a Tiny Town with her mother Su, father Elu, Cat the cat, and of course, Car. When things get mundane in arguably the most mundane smart town on the planet, Car becomes the family’s confidante who absorbs all their emotions but never reflects his feelings; consoles their heartbreaks in silence but never complains about his needs.
Car tries his best to keep the family safe throughout this seven-day journey to self-discovery, trust, and hope. But what should he do if his only friend Deepa wants him to fly with her to Mars, to save him from impending doom?
How about Car’s feelings? How about his constantly exhausted battery? And how about his Free Speech? After all, Car isn’t just a car!