“The history of design is therefore a history of evolving conceptions of the human. To talk about design is to talk about the state of our species.”
Are We Human (2016) by Colomina, B. and Wigley, M.
- T1, sci-fiction (comic)
· respond to the body forgetting in meal replacement drink
- T2 present product
· Artificial food
· Talk about design is to talk about the state of our species
as a way to observe society
- T3 combine T1 and T2
· using sci-fiction, and exist Artificial Food to imagine the future
· reflect on the reality
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· Fasting, diet culture, binge eating to shape the body = unequal relationship (abuse) between mind and body.
· manage the body in a distance, is an actual separation and antagonism， just like the metaphor “body is the machine” ，are all devalue-ate the body.
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Visual part 1
Method：Design Fiction
is better defined as a set of design practices that can help us reflect about, emotionally engage with, and potentially critique alternative realities and possible future scenarios.
design fiction artifacts tend to be inspired by emerging technologies and their potential developments and implications
(Science Fiction Prototyping, Design Fiction, and Worldbuilding, What Differences? 2021)
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– Design: method to speculate the future
– open a new perspective, using imagination to give the discussion and debate of now a room
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Visual part 2
“Individuals today are imbued with and conditioned by a rhythmicity that has reached a stage of almost total mechanicity (as opposed to humanization).”
Philosopher Leroi Gouhran
- Time and money priority = capitalism
- individuals extraneous to themselves, reducing them to mere containers of the capacity for work
- cause the repression and ignorant of body = meal replacement drink