This is my theme board for this project below is my self written brief which was for a smart materials project in my second year of uni.
Brief
The future, 2029 – the world has changed, shifted into another age for mankind. Earth and its inhabitants have gone through a chain of major events which all began with a mega event.
This event was out of man’s control. It began with the shifting magnetic poles of the Earth’s interior; which just so happened to occur around the Sun’s most aggressive solar maximum. This lasts approximately six months and occurs every 12-13 years periodically. It means the side of the sun facing earth has increased sunspots and regularly burst out solar storms also known as coronal mass ejections, thus sending incalculable amounts of charged particles right towards Earth.
This occurred in the years 2012 to 2013, at this time Earth’s magnetic field which normally forms a protective barrier against the constant bombardment of solar storms was only at 50%, which meant everything that was could not be. The storms destroyed 2800 of the orbiting satellites leaving just under 200 untouched, all belonging to lesser powerful nations. Electronic equipment everywhere was rendered powerless. Within day’s mass panic, riots and looting broke out. Governments could not control the surge of people, desperate, unable to cope.
Eventually disease and famine took over. Human activity began to cease, day by day people were dying due to their inability to take care of themselves in a world which had no civil order. By 2016 80% of the world’s population had diminished and 60% of land animal species were wiped out. The few remaining survivors were strong and independent; it was their odyssey which began the rebuild of a new and profound society - the world we live in today.
Our society has taken on a new and enlightening form. With the stronghold of previous governments nothing more than a memory, the suppressed conformist remaining cultures came into their own; they were free to build their own world piece by piece, place by place. Creativity as mankind’s destiny, the separating characteristic of humans to animals.
At that point resources were no longer in supply and technology was left to those with a will to survive and an industrious mind. Man began to rummage through the wastelands, salvage the remaining pieces and artifacts from the previous world which was 99% man-made materials. Between the few groups of people left, man swore never to exploit and take for granted our Earth again and to recycle everything that was once a commodity waiting to be thrown away.
Some smart people found a way of turning the scrap heap into clever, sophisticated body wear to protect themselves and others from the danger and darkness.
This new found freedom meant the individual could flourish…..subcultures suppressed were now free to live in peace and prosper.
Some predicted the shift as an apocalypse; others who were more aware and prepared embraced the shift and evolved with the passage of the events.
And………..That is what my project is about!!!!
Research on other designers is always a good place to begin....
Lets play with some materials......
Lets find a trend.....
Gather ideas...thoughts...summarize...
Design.....
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