Project Scope

A second year graduate studio assignment focusing on conceptual design, speculative futures, world building and material iteration.

Our studio engaged with contemporary discourse and theory inspired by the book Four Futures. Author, Peter Frase, presents four scenarios for the future speculating on how society will change in the face of two global forces: automation and ecological catastrophe. For my project I explored concepts of workplace hierarchy and the scarcity of natural resources in an imagined corporate park called Sterling.

At Sterling, hierarchy is determined through emotional surveillance. To preserve emotional stability and natural resources, less positive individuals are harvested for their data and eliminated from Sterling during an annual review process. The most positive individuals are considered the most productive and are the only ones permitted to stay within the confines of the corporate park.