SOILSKIN
Soil is our skin, skin is our soil
AUTHORS: Barbara Rakovská, Sofia Mazzucchelli Pompeu de Toledo, Xaneva Elorriaga George
FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FASHION 2024
The SOILSKIN project aims to create renewable garments integrated with biotechnological components. Inspired by post-earth roamers forced to endure aridity, the wool-cotton blend textile used for the body of our dress is temperature adaptable, sustainable to cultivate and acts as a carbon sink. The design features a 3D printed corset and medieval-style gorget with a degradé coloring, representing desiccation cracks due to global warming. This armour reflects UV rays, but also represents the aestheticization of climate change in dystopian narratives. In our futuristic imagining, the hands-on ritual of ripping and immersing the fabric will not only stimulate ecological restoration, but revive humanity's empathy for the planet's thirst.
