NeoGenesis is set in 2080, after humanity’s destruction of nature has made migration unavoidable. Across a wasteland desert, travellers face extreme climates and plants and animals mutated by pollution. The protagonist, Irene, studies how other species protect, warn, camouflage and adapt. By translating this survival wisdom into clothing, she helps the migrating community survive while forcing them to confront the environmental mistakes that created this world. The wearable is therefore not only protective equipment; it proposes a new collaborative relationship between humans and nature under extreme conditions.
I led all work beyond garment design and construction, including the speculative narrative, migration and biomimicry research, character and creature development, functional system design, visual identity, poster, photography, Arduino and EEG tests, 3D world-building and final communication.
Historical migrations caused by climate, famine and ecological collapse established the project’s premise: in 2080, humanity becomes a travelling population because it destroyed the conditions that once supported settled life.
Rather than treating nature as a resource to conquer, Irene studies the survival intelligence of desert species—neural control, defensive structures, camouflage and warning colour.
Each biological strategy is translated into a wearable function: an EEG-triggered helmet, protective scales, extendable warning structures, adaptive colour and an exoskeletal support system.
The garment, mutant creature and wasteland environment form one narrative encounter. Irene protects the travellers, but her design also asks whether survival is possible without changing humanity’s relationship with nature.
NeoGenesis is not simply a survival costume. It imagines biomimicry as an ethical shift: humans survive by learning how to collaborate with nature, while confronting the destruction that made migration necessary.
A complete speculative world centred on Irene and the migrating travellers: a fabricated biomimetic wearable, an integrated protective system, a mutant desert creature, a 3D wasteland environment, photography and a visual narrative set in 2080.
FormatTwo-person collaboration · 2024—2025 · Time: 2080 · Wasteland Desert
ContributionI led all work beyond garment design and construction, including the speculative narrative, migration and biomimicry research, character and creature development, functional system design, visual identity, poster, photography, Arduino and EEG tests, 3D world-building and final communication.
MethodsSpeculative world-building · Migration research · Biomimicry · Wearable system design · Character development · Photography and 3D
StatusComplete case-study entry · further raw media can be added over time
The webpage foregrounds the project’s argument. The PDF preserves the full research, visual development and documentation.