what is at stake (transhumanism)
genetic engineering
technological enhancements
gene drive,altering species
hyrbids humans and maybe animals
crispr, dna modifications, designer babies
human cyborgs
new digital and computer driven society
robotics
evolution of human species
Unsustainable humankind and a dying planet
the possability and solutions of many current problems ( mainly medical) - human rights
also alot of medical solutions and enhancing of our systems and life preferences
imo biggest limitation and struggle currently of humankind: we are not sustainable
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main questions:
is it ethical?
who will decide?
will we know the impact powers?
should we?
where is the limit of what we should do or know?
for better or worse?
is humankind ready?
is this the solutions to our problems?
will it bring new inequalities?
Philosophical question i have been asking mainly:
i believe in the quote "with great power, comes great responsability."
so i asked myself why where the homo sapiens the one species that ended up dominating the earth, only to eventually create a working algorithm in our life that would destroy it's own planet and therefor our living habitat.
ted talk of Yuval Noah Hanari "why humans run the earth"
tells about the theory that the homo sapiens can live both flexible and collective. and the thing that differs us from other species is our imagination
that's how we've created a fictional reality layer (includes money, states and religions) that througout time became so powerful that the objective reality started to be effected and dependant on the fictional realities choices, developments and wishes.
our current economical system
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important rule that we've learned in history so far: that speculative designs and thinking has never been so important. we should critically reflect on what humand are and what we can do both good and bad and let the one not limit us for enhancing the other.
this we can only do to realise our fictional world into shaped and stories of what it can be, both good and bad, and not what we think or assume it should be. because we dont know. we only know the facts that our society is dealing with right now. inequality & unsustainability etc. and keep growing and exploring the untapped sources of our own beautiful ecological systems of our planet and what we could and should provide it as human beings.
thATS WHY
with this design should be a conversation piece- to help people understand and embrace change instead of fear it, but remain sceptical on how what and why.
i do believe our morals will chnge along our own evolutions. thats why speculative and conversations and inputs from all over is necessary
my vision:
we should use these developments not only to enhance ourselves and mend the ones in need of it.
but also look further to ourselves and own up to our responsability and our main lacking: our unsustainable vision brought by our own fictional reality that has been created on our both good and bad human characteristics.
"we are 2 year olds when it comes to understanding our ecosystem"
the new species of humans should be something where our fictional reality is more coherent and dependant on our objective reality, so that we can take on our resposabilty by using the gift of our imagination to create scenario where human kind uses bio genetics and techoinological developments to regain it's worthy position in our beautiful but delicately balanced ecosystem and the circle of life.
conceptualizing
concept: new body enhancement-( to adventually a possible new species)
to try out and learn of our ecosystem and how to be more in touch with the objective reality and to change our fictional reality to create a human species through use of tech and scientific developments with purpose of regaining a worthy position of humankind on our planet
design purpose: something that definitely sparks conversation and triggers imagination and speculative thinking. but it must really adress both distopian and utopian aspects, because change is necessary but withought knowledge or insights and reflections, we will make the same mistakes we used to.
so i want to make something tht really reflects on what we are as human beings, of our current actions and choices in our fictional world and critically reflect on our effects on the objective world and what it's value actually is to us
interactive and imaginative space is important i think
we've lost touch of the value of our objective world.
humans are way more dependant and see more value of the fictional world we created than the objective world.
we live for survival, since that is not a problem to the majority of the unsustainable living, we live for quality and luxury.
so what if we changed our species through these upcoming developments to make us more dependant or make the damaged affects of our actions more directly a priority to us as beings, so that our choices are more in touch with the wellbeing of our environment as priority
maybe that comes with more fictional and speculative thinking?
but with insights on not our own egocentric needs...
if we create abilities wich makes our fictional reality as dependant on our objective reality as it is the other way around. in that way we would actually have a more direct and personal need and desire to change our fictional reality until its sustainable enough to be in balance with our objective reality.
concept
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research questions:
is humanity capable of changing themselves into sustainable beings?
what if we could manipulate our instincts?
what if our imagination, along with our predictions/perspective would be triggered in a certain format (visually, mentally,physcically) so that we are less limited by our own narrow perspective (morals, views) "open minded"
important element:
imagination
instincts
fictional objective worlds
open minded
design
(by altering the human species through these developments)
research how animals cointeract with their objective reality (in relation on how humans do it)
design how that can be applied to the limitations of human capacities on the objective reality
with the purpose to train our imagination/ speculative and knowledge sharing skills to adapt our fictional reality into a more balanced and sustainable one.
create a coral like biotechnology under human skin
Sustainability :
we are not a sustainable species
we do not have a connection to our objective worls like other species due how we live mainly in our fictional worls, with the consequences that the objective world is being very dependent on the choices we make in our own
its what gives us the power to grow like this, its what makes us different but we are using this power in a destructive way
our insticts ar e based on survival but also makes us now the selfish narrow beings
we dont see the bigger picture, wich enables us of going forward
make design/prototype in plusweeks,
materials
techniques
know sortof what you wanna make (design)
make/prepare an abtract planning?
corals/underwater ecosystems
both visual and health intertwined to humans(survival instincts)
visually designed to hint to genetic engineering + how littlenwe know pf our own alienesc world
connection objective/fictional reality
purpose of introducing an
educative method with developments
and hinting to the amount of unknown of ecosystems
awareness damage oceanic ecosystems
what is the most relevent, and what do you want to talk about...
what kind of elements would the sensors pick up?
only your own environments?
global warming?
dying reefs?
water pollution?
air pollution?
toxic waste?
whatever data you select? from research based documentations all over the world?
purpose to attach humanity into a sustainable species and my vision is to manipulate our instincts and educational/awareness modifications are mor eimportant now than ever , and also how to maintained in future scenario's
or a instatutionalized object?
biomechanic organism applied to/under ous skin &body
a direct line to the health and wellbeing of our oceans, each coral polyp stands for a different vital oceanic element.
why? - because we humans can not live underwater so we cant control it as much, but we do have an effect on it with our behavioral exiistence
where the government forces it on us becauseee....
to manipulate our instincs, survival/health over quality life regardless sustainable or not
sensors/ organisms linked to our nervous systems and brain that we recieve both data and feel it physically
data recieved from noaa
does human kind have the capacites to be the self-evidential sustainable species we ought to be?
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more focus on oceanic life...
we have come to the conclusions that human kind as we know it can not take care of the planet like we are supposed to. we are a virus that needs to be contaminated
and this biomechanics organism is the vaccine,
its inserted in us like a shot and manifestates within our skin and grows outside like an coral over its skeleton.
als de gezondheid van de ecosystemen een meer directe impact zouden hebben op onze eigen gezondheid, dan pas gaan er echte veranderingen komen...
humankind will never become a sustainable species unless the health of our ecosystems will directly impact are own.
humankind will never be able to restore the oceans ecosystems, untill it's health and wellbeing has a direct impact on our own.