How do scientists at the University of Bremen imagine the planetary future? What world(s) does their research make possible? How do we want to live? On Wednesday, September 6 at 6 p.m., Prof. Dr.-Ing Lucio Colombi Ciacchi and Dr. Christian Peters will address these and similar questions. Do we need Mars research to live better on Earth? And will the future be fairer or more unfair? In this interdisciplinary dialog, the materials researcher and the political scientist question each other and can then also be questioned by the audience according to certain rules of the game. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi is the part of the research initiative "Humans on Mars" at the University of Bremen.

This contribution takes place in the context of the Science Year 2023 - Our Universe. The funding project "Mars finds a city" under the project management of the Halle-based association science2public - Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftskommunikation is bringing the red planet to us on Earth for this purpose. Seven meters in diameter and printed with original NASA photographs, the Mars work by British artist Luke Jerram has been traveling since May through nine science cities in Germany that cooperate in the "SK WISTA" strategy group Science in the City. The Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen will present the Mars installation in cooperation with the Kulturkirche St. Stephani from August 24 to September 14, 2023. The installation will hang in the crossing of St. Stephani and will be accompanied by a diverse program of events including scientific lectures, concerts and workshops for school students*.