Tagged 3D

Our kickoff project in Thesis Prep Studio was a collaboration across cohorts, i.e. between 2nd year and 3rd year MFA students. Gabriella Goldstein and I were challenged with envisioning for a speculative future scenario and designing artifacts from that future.

We focused on a future in which all pollinating insects have gone extinct. Faced with a collapsing ecosystem, humans are faced with a choice: take up the invisible labor previously done by insects or starve to death. How might humans fill in the ecological roles previously assumed by insects?

Our design solution, B-KEEPER, is a Synthetic Pollen Application system for humans. Through continuous manual labor and a handy smartphone app, humans can maintain the delicate ecosystem and enjoy pollinating plants just like before!