Five hundred years in the future in World 267, Earth has become dry and uninhabitable due to global warming and ozone depletion. Humanity migrates to Mars, creating vast glass structures that capture sunlight and simulate Earth’s atmosphere.
Fashion evolves into an understated, functional form focused on survival and sustainability. Materials are made from rapidly regenerating mycelium fabrics and natural pigments created by bacteria.
This world split from ours when climate action came too late, forcing humans to innovate and rebuild civilisation through sustainable design and technology on a new planet.
What if …
… Earth became uninhabitable due to climate change, forcing humanity to migrate to Mars and reinvent fashion using sustainable, regenerative materials?
Issue targeted:
Overconsumption, waste and the environmental impact of material production. It imagines a world where fashion becomes more functional and sustainable, created using renewable resources that can be grown in a small ecosystem like fungus and algae.
Inspiration:
Inspiration comes from current concerns about global warming, and depletion of natural resources, and innovations in bio-design and sustainable materials. Concepts like space colonisation and circular design also influence this world.
This World was contributed by Jake Griffin (located in the UK), 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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