In World 228, humanity suffered a collective psychological collapse. To recover from it, all governments agreed to put an end to globalisation. People live in small communities.
As part of a psychological recovery and wellbeing, they come together in a great ritual every year to define dressing elements for each member, to wear during their next year of life. Their decision evolves through a shared discusson about the psychological and bio-physical elements of the member’s wellbeing.
There are discussion groups throughout the year to reflect upon the effects of the specific look and together with the group it is possible to modify it for a better effect, eventually.
What if …
what we wore was decided by a community and aimed to heal us?
Issue targeted:
Globalisation, overproduction and overconsumption have reduced the meanings and the mediative power of dress culture
Inspiration:
The magical clothes from folk tales
This World was contributed by Anikó Gál (located in Italy) using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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