How to provide for our needs in a planet inhabited by nothing and no one? Questioning the living conditions of humans on Mars, designers Fred Erik & Pleun van Dijk outline a scenario in which man has to resort to his own body production - hair, skin, sweat - as primary material in order to survive.
Is there food on Mars? A hypothesis of circular nutrition
A speculative project shows a future scenario in which we can use recycled organic material to feed ourselves.
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- 12 March 2020
- Mars
Entitled The Body Garden, their speculative project highlights both the tools needed to collect organic material and its potential use. The aim, however, is broader and paradigmatic: to overthrow the speciesism on which our existence is based, assuming a future in which not only we could count only on ourselves as our unique food source, but also other living species could use us as a supply.
- The Body Garden
- design speculativo
- Fred Erik and Pleun van Dijk
- 2020
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk
A speculative design project by Fred Erik e Pleun van Dijk