HeyJaredMars College
Mars College is an educational program, R&D lab, and residential community dedicated to cultivating a low-cost, high-tech lifestyle.
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D∞M: The Department ∞f Makers at Mars College (opens the original)
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The Department ∞f Makers is the workshop, R&D Lab and art studio of the Mars College campus.The Salton Sea region is a difficult place to live. It is an area where disaster, infrastructure failure, distance from stores and resources and attempts at cobbling together self-determined lives with dignity at the cost of comfort, legality and institutional support has become somewhat of the norm rather than the exception. The Salton Sea itself is an example of human hubris and error on a scale hard to
Incubator Camp is Landing on Mars (opens the original)
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I know what side I am on: it's Freeside! (opens the original)
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Years ago, I went on a months-long solo road and camping trip throughout the western United States. I was looking for a place I could settle and maybe learn to call home, a place that would hold a promise of belonging, community, shared joy — the things I thought would help me live a fulfilled life. One day, as I was following the Klamath River, I checked the map and there it was, right there at my fingertip: “Happy Camp,” just a few miles from where I was! That had to be an omen. Maybe this was
The New Buddha Comes in the Form of Community (opens the original)
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The Mars Experience (opens the original)
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Reflections on 2026 by IraI went to Mars to work on an art piece about a decentralized off-grid society in the desert. But as a Martian explained to me (while placing a rag under a cutting board), “Sometimes the first thing you need to do is prepare to begin.”I realized society doesn’t need another sculpture, another utopian facade. It needs the real thing. It needs a kitchen. Plumbing. Power. Communications systems. So I sat down. And I shut up. And I listened. And I learned. And together we bu
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