Plasticenta is a prophecy exploring the “dark ecology” of the contemporary womb, where the discovery of microplastics in placental tissues signals the collapse of the biological-synthetic boundary. The installation manifests as a multisensory landscape featuring resin-cast placentas, 3D-printed “scan-for-fun” fetus, and haptic textiles. Contrasting these post-natural artifacts with intimate photography of radical care, the work investigates the trauma of environmental colonization within our most “invisible architectures.” Through CGI-enhanced endoscopic video and scientific archives, the project challenges us to reimagine kinship and care in a body permanently rewritten by polymers.
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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.