Superflux shows how future homes might face realities of climate change in 2219
Design studio Superflux has built a vision of a typical Singapore home in 2219, with features including homemade hunting tools, snorkelling equipment and a mini hydroponic farm.
Superflux founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern imagine that climate change will completely change the way people live their lives over the next 100 years, as day-to-day survival becomes increasingly difficult.
With the installation Mitigation of Shock, currently on show at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, they have created a fictional home that responds to the issues of "extreme weather conditions, economic uncertainty and broken global supply chains".
It is equipped with tools that occupants might need to source food and water, as well as to travel around the city.
The designers see the project as optimistic rather than dystopian. They hope to show that humans are a resourceful species, able to radically adapt to new situations and environments, and invent new ways of living.
"For us, Mitigation of Shock is not apocalyptic, but instead a pragmatic vision of hope, emerging from a dystopian future ravaged by climate change," explained Ardern.
"On a personal level, it can be difficult for people to imagine how an issue like global warming might affect everyday life for our future selves, or generations to come," he continued.
"Our immersive simulation merges the macabre and the mundane as the social and economic consequences of climate change infiltrate the dome...
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