The Space Architect
40 mins.
Date: 10 Jan, 2026 | Time: 16:30 | Godrej Dance Theatre
When world-renowned space architect Constance Adams is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she doesn’t slow down—she accelerates. She invites filmmaker Rebecca Carpenter, a former classmate, to document her final reflections. Determined to preserve her legacy, Adams shares her vision: a design philosophy that fuses technical precision with human-centered empathy.
Over her career, Adams devised elegant systems for survival in space—habitats for Mars, deep space quarters, and innovations like the first LED-based luminaire and radiation shields. But she came to see that her work wasn’t only for Mars—it was for Earth. As climate change renders our planet increasingly hostile, Adams applied the same methods once used for sustaining life off-world to protecting humanity here.
Her final endeavor, The Mothership Project, is a sweeping framework for survival, blending climate science, systems engineering, and socio-political modeling. It anticipates mass migration, agricultural collapse, and rising seas—but also offers actionable solutions to adapt before 2050.
This film is more than science or climate—it’s about Constance herself: brilliant, polarizing, fiercely devoted to her daughters. Filmed in the last chapter of her life, it is part time capsule, part manifesto, revealing a woman racing against time so that future generations might have more of it.
When world-renowned space architect Constance Adams is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she doesn’t slow down—she accelerates. She invites filmmaker Rebecca Carpenter, a former classmate, to document her final reflections. Determined to preserve her legacy, Adams shares her vision: a design philosophy that fuses technical precision with human-centered empathy.
Over her career, Adams devised elegant systems for survival in space—habitats for Mars, deep space quarters, and innovations like the first LED-based luminaire and radiation shields. But she came to see that her work wasn’t only for Mars—it was for Earth. As climate change renders our planet increasingly hostile, Adams applied the same methods once used for sustaining life off-world to protecting humanity here.
Her final endeavor, The Mothership Project, is a sweeping framework for survival, blending climate science, systems engineering, and socio-political modeling. It anticipates mass migration, agricultural collapse, and rising seas—but also offers actionable solutions to adapt before 2050.
This film is more than science or climate—it’s about Constance herself: brilliant, polarizing, fiercely devoted to her daughters. Filmed in the last chapter of her life, it is part time capsule, part manifesto, revealing a woman racing against time so that future generations might have more of it.
