INKUBARE
SPECULATIVE DESIGN
24 June 2022 ~ 14 july 2022 | new yorksoftware: Adobe AI, PS, ID | Material: fabric, sewing machine, craft paper, foamsThis project is a graduate design studio course in Pratt Institute by Professor Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman. The course asked for designing a garment product, provoking people to rethink the future of our planet.
SCENARIO: Sci-fi ｜ artificial technology | advanced biotechHuman be natural, be realistic
Speculating into the distant future, this project provides a glimpse into a world heavily reliant on artificial technology and advanced biotech. We live with new human being forms, like awakened humanoid robots, cyborgs and cloned humans. In this context, INKUBARE becomes a trending lifestyle, everyone can have their own child, a cloned one.
INKUBARE is a speculative design that protest the rapid development of technology without moral compass and boundaries.
What does it mean to be human?
Where do we draw the boundaries between human and artificial humans?
Will you accept the depicted future?
Ideation: building conceptsProtecting fetus all the time
The INKUBARE is basically a wearable cloning incubator. It has one artificial uterus bag, and an artificial placenta with straps so that you can wear it in front of you all the time just like kangaroos. Grow your next generation by using INKUBARE.
Development: Prototyping and IterationPrototyping process:
Final prototypeEGG (artificial uterus)
One artificial uterus bag, also called an egg bag, which is a replacement organ used to assist humans in the development of a fetus.
Straps with Container
An artificial placenta is designed to place the egg bag. The user can take the egg bag off or put it in if needed.
The clothes that every family member has ever worn are collaged into straps.
