Echo.
Date
05/2023
Collaborative School Project
with Marina Zuquim, MA Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins
Screening in
Open Space 70 Climate Arts Festival
This is a design residency project in which we visit Haworth, UK, and spend three days responding to its environs by developing a climate fiction project. After experiencing the stories in Haworth and researching them, "Death" became the main inspiration for this trip.ECHO is a climate fiction project exploring crisis response and emergency strategies in a speculative future, and it became the project "ECHO", a climate fiction project exploring crisis response and emergency strategies in a speculative future 2060.
In 2060, there was a sudden death of eight billion people within a month. Triggered by misleading reports on overpopulation, excessive food production led to viral contamination driven by potent pesticides and genetic mutations. The catastrophe, compounded by climate change, resulted in severe environmental pollution from the deceased.
To address this, a fictional non-profit organization—ECHO, presents a radical solution to an unprecedented crisis - The Capsule —a device designed to repurpose the dead while optimizing decomposition.
It extracts dead bodies' gases to generate electricity, carbon to produce filters and proteins, and amino and fatty acids to create uncontaminated nourishment. When scaled, The Capsule offers a vision for a transformed world where death is reimagined as a means to sustain life, fostering a deeper connection with the Earth.
“Join and spread ECHO.
Let’s get through it all together while alive or dead.”
— Marina and Chuichui from ECHO
