Engineering professor Francesca Parotti was featured in a recent issue of La Repubblica’s Il Venerdi’ magazine about a new master’s degree in space design at Florence’s Istituto Superiore delle Industrie Artistiche that she has helped to launch. Parotti is quoted throughout the article, talking about meeting the future needs of humans on the moon and on mars, the hypothetical planetary engineering process known as terraforming, and space-related prototypes that have already been developed.