08 / Undergraduate project
NEO-Organ Origin
Wearable organ prototypes explore a future where climate adaptation and biotechnology reshape the human body.
- Context
- Undergraduate group project · Media Arts and Design
- Discipline
- Speculative Design / Critical Futures
- Focus
- Critical futures and body-scale prototyping
- Output
- Wearable organ prototypes, anatomical studies, project film
01 / The scenario & research
Ask what bodily adaptation might become.
NEO-Organ Origin imagines a future in which extreme heat and resource scarcity make bodily adaptation a commercial service. Research into camel humps and kangaroo pouches informed two fictional transplantable organs, while a speculative biotechnology timeline and production-and-care system place them within a broader future world.
02 / Concept & fabrication
Two organs, imagined at body scale.
The Human Hump proposes an energy-storage extension; the Human Pouch imagines a protected space for sheltering and nourishing a baby. Sketches, anatomical illustrations and body-fitting studies develop their forms and intended functions. The concepts were realized as wearable prototypes through modeling, 3D printing, assembly and silicone finishing.
03 / World-building & outcome
Put the artifacts into their future world.
Desert photography situates both artifacts in the environment that prompted the proposal. Alongside the imagined supply chain and clinical care system, the prototypes provide a concrete way to discuss how people might adapt, which bodily changes could become desirable, and how commercialization might shape future relationships between nature and the human body.
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Contact
Based in London, United Kingdom
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