Astro 2030 : Present Future

School Activities

School Activities
17th March 2022

When We Get To Mars

This task is to inspire creativity and story-telling. It is also designed to generate conversation around immigration and empathy. Students should work in collaborative groups to create exciting stories while encouraging good presentation skills.
School Activities
20th March 2022

My Perfect Planet

This task is to inspire creativity through a lens of social and environmental activism. By learning about the work of a leading women in photography, this can inspire new channels of self-expression and how you can visually tell a story
School Activities
20th March 2022

One Way Ticket to Mars

This task is to inspire creativity and empathy by understanding what it may feel like to leave their homes, this can encourage students to understand the hardships some families go through. By linking it back to their own interpretations of traveling to a new planet - students can choose any emotion to…

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte is a Mexican-British multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work acknowledges her indigenous heritage while exploring current ideals of progress. She embraces themes related to science and technology and their influence over society and the natural world. In her projects she mixes images and new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, to create multi-layered work, producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives. Mónica’s work confronts our obsession with speed and infinite growth on a planet crying out for us to slow down. Her work has been exhibited and collected throughout Europe, Mexico and the United States.