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Fashion (MA)

Jie Zhang

After being oppressed and enslaved by human beings for a long time, silkworms began to wake up, they began to overthrow the rule of human beings, and human beings began to become the lower part of the food chain. What kind of society will be controlled by silkworms in 2100?

Animal ethics, speculative design, sustainability

Here is a fabric made from waste silkworm shells.

In the world dominated by silkworms in the year 2100, it is a very important material, equivalent to the status of oil today.

In the past, in order to make silk, humans usually cooked live silkworm pupae, because when the silkworm breaks the shell, it secretes a substance that destroys the silk thread.






Pragmatism, multifunctional bags, speculative scenarios
2100 - Doomsday bag designIn a society dominated by silkworms in the year 2100, we find three forms of bag.
Pragmatism, multifunctional bags, speculative scenarios
A bag designed for a silkwormerWe suspect that silkworms can live parasitically on people through the bag, helping them control human actions and thoughts, with a cute, harmless appearance to let people relax their guard.
Pragmatism, multifunctional bags, speculative scenarios
Bag number 1 for surviving humansWe suspect that this bag is mainly designed for surviving humans. There are two main forms, the prototype can hold a lot of things, and can be smaller without the use of bags.
Pragmatism, multifunctional bags, speculative scenarios
Bag number 2 for surviving humansWe suspect that the bag was mainly designed to free human hands to do more flexible movements, inspired by the archer's bag.
bag,Recycled nylon