Pharmadise – It's radiance. It's performance. It's youth.
Speculative Design Project by:
Jakub Pawlowski, Rei Lupu, Silvia Milcic
Advisors Concept & Prototyping:
Prof. Henrik Rieß, Felix Müller, M.A.
Advisors Graphic Design:
Anc Ciechanowicz, M.A., Illia Boyko, B.A.
Speculative Future Scenario:
What if, in 2100, every tourist entering pharma-governed Florida received a temporary peptide pump at the border, removed again on departure?
Imagining Florida in the year 2100 as 'Pharmadise', a state ruled by a pharmaceutical conglomerate. The project tackles the issues of healthcare funding, mass surveillance, self-administered research chemicals, and climate change.
After the National Youth & Health Preservation Plan (NYHPP) has been established, the citizens of Florida must wear subdermal pumping implants, which synthesize and distribute peptides, preserving their health and beauty while minimizing the need for healthcare. People get to live to 150. They retire at 110. At 45, people look a youthful 25. At 150, they look a youthful 90. Everyone is healthy in Pharmadise.
The souvenir describes a visitors' kit for a trip to Pharmadise. It includes QwenchQore – a temporary bio gland – to adapt to the necessary level of peptides in the sun state. Furthermore, the kit includes a pre-filled Temporary Visitor Implant for arrival on-site, and a Withdrawal Multi-Support to help travelers deal with their peptide withdrawal symptoms after their return.
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