Vegan designer Erez Nevi Pana uses home-grown materials to create cocoon-like shelters for people living in an imaginary tropical version of Milan, which has an unfamiliar climate due to global warming.
The shelters have each been made from vegan and sustainable materials, and feature in a film made by the designer. Both elements make up an installation by Nevi Pana called Tropical Milan.
The installation imagines a future city that has been transformed into a jungle-like climate due to rising temperatures and sees its inhabitants take refuge in woven bags and hammocks made from banana fibres.
Top video: a clip of Nevi Pana's film. Above: Nevi Pana has designed three "cocoons" from banana plants
After creating a series of vegan furniture items for a show during Milan Design Week 2018, the designer wanted to go a step further and grow his own ingredients in order to "gain total control over them". "When coming back from Milan after the vegan show, I was looking at all the materials that I've used and shared with the world ? yes, they were vegan, but with most of them I couldn't trace back their origins," he told Dezeen.
"I was thinking that if I want my objects to be 100 per cent pure vegan, I have to be responsible for their full-cycle and growth."
The human cocoons feature in a film directed by Nevi Pana
For the project, Nevi Pana imagines banana plants as the only crop being produced in the region. As a result, he created three obje...