1. Trade To TreeA Speculative Design Project of Minseo and Yoogle
2. Anthropocene is the recent geologic age that
human influenced. At this age we human extract
what want without considering consequences.
We imapct the environment we are living. We
dominant this planet and we give priority to
economic development.
3. w h a t i f t h e re i s a
futrue called post-
anthropocene.
At first, we think about post-anthropocene
is post-human. It means there is no human
in the society. As a spceculation design is
reflection of reality. So to lead such a future,
we thought about disaster and non-human
zone. Such as Chernobyl.The reason should
be strong enough like nuclear disaster.
H oweve r, i t i s i m p ro p e r to d e s i g n i n g
speculation and arousing a debate. The
reasons are as follow. Firstly, disaster making
human disappeared is too fictional to lead
the audiences to believe. Secondly, nuclear
or other disasters future directly project our
current issues and using it reveal us protecting
our environment is not something new. So it
is difficult to make us critique and think more.
Thirdly, Design is the medium to change us to
suit the world not the end of civilization.
4. Dunne and Raby's "Foragers"
Hasegawa's "I wanna Deliver a Shark"
Thomas's "Goatmant"
These projects inspired us to move
the another topic. Post-antropocene is
not only human disappeared, and also
considering to change human mind
thinking post-anthropocentricly. It
could be projection of food shortage,
transhuman in high-tech and also save
an endangered animals within over-
population.
5. What if there is we human
blend in the nature system that
we need it to be eco. What if
there is no cosuming led by
commercial ads. What if we
stay in a healthy system that
we pay for what we get from
this system. There is no owner
and ownership. Spices sell their
values by themselves and what
we exchanging is aside by
rules. Everything is valued by
their own, We bartering with
other spices.
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7. First Prototype
It still stay in the position
of consuming society. So
exchanging is not only a
money design. And the
value sytem behind the
exchanging media.
8. Bio-Electronic Currency
Black Stack
Inspirations
In now days, high-tech payment is a mature
technology universally. So what if we project
our future money, it should be something
better than current devices.What's more
society is changing. Like the black stack
mentioned, it could be a new struture which
around resourse and new rules
9. Using a market store to create
the environment and scenario
between the tree and human.
Seeking the possible way that
trees actually interact with
others. One of their behaviours
is they make carbon trade with
their root. They create value and
pay it their roots. So trade with
human might be the similar way.
Otherwise, we planned to express
the idea by a interactive method
and empathy.
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12. Making Interactive shoes for
human and trees
We used paper and clays to make gaint
tree root for viewer to play the role
as a tree. And we made a sneaker to
represent human. On the tree root there
are lots of tags which is the bacatira
for tress the transfer theri values. And
another side, Human use his sneakers to
touch the point to get the infomation for
the tree. All the information wes installed
into the tags. Besides, considering trees
move slowly. So we increased the weight
of the root for tree side moving hardly.
13. We built a simple user flow to let viewers run
the basic scenario that could be the demand
of human requiring from the tree and the other
side.Comparing with market activities in reality,
this also includes : pricing, negotiation, supply-
demand relationship changing and job finding.
16. Interacting with the partner
When you tap the tags.There will be a screent to give informations
for both.The human side could only see the red content because
he wares a blue glasses.On the other hand, the tree can see blue
content in a red glasses.
