CIP 4: BODY GARDEN For this project, our group decided to approach the 'Behavioural change' macro-trend and 'Waste management' micro-trend and their relationship to human beings. According to the UN, by the year 2025, the world population will increase by 20% to reach 8 billion inhabitants and the amounts of waste will increase tremendously. (Mavropoulus, 2012) By creating a future scenario in the year 2050, this project will explore the possibility of human beings of growing plants or vegetables in their own physical bodies, as a hybrid between nature and human beings. Our aim is to question the idea of reusing our body nutrients and biological systems in order to grow organic matter and be able to save resources. We will provide a new service, in which people will receive a pill that they must take for four days until plants will start growing. As a result, a new interaction is constituted of nurturing organic matter. Our purpose is to critically challenge the audience's expectations, by showing them alternative ways of living and provoking on them, new ways of thinking. Studies have been conducted in the past by scientists, which have resulted in alternative ways of producing food; such as growing edible meat in a laboratory from cell cultures. For instance, genes from a spider inserted into the DNA of a goat have been used to produce large quantities of spider silk. Among the strongest substances known to man, the silk can even be used for building. These successes ...
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