The series “Survival Kits for the End of the World” explores the ecological dimensions of water, as the central element of contemporary ecological and climatic crises, and the potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.
Through speculative design, the work incorporates contemporary narratives and representations of post-extinction and humanity demise, metaphorically dominated by water.
Employing Artificial Intelligence to envision a future in which climate chaos has rendered the earth nearly uninhabitable, fictional technologies and survival systems are integrated into a pseudo-scientific framework, complete with taxonomies, classification plates, and diagrammatic charts inspired by scientific illustration.
Courting a sci-fi aesthetic to question the myths of endless technology-driven progress, hi-tech devices designed exclusively for women, are presented through animated charts, depicting illusory ways of implementing the capacity to adapt, survive and dominate the environment, in ecologically stressed times.
The series draws on the symbolic association between the feminine and nature to reimage the female body as a hybrid, machine-like automaton, evoking female monstrous archetypes as allegories of adaptation, domination, and dissolution in the face of planetary collapse.