
Nuclear Signal to Far Future
Fiction design | Social innovation | Activity design | Speculative | Team work
Nuclear Power is like Pandora's Box. We are fascinated by the extreme duality it shows. It has invaded our lives profoundly and quietly while we still think it is a distant subject. Humanity opened this magic box 100 years ago. Standing at the crossroads of time and technology, we can't help but imagine what the future will be like, created by the wings of nuclear power. It is a tool to bring prosperity or a weapon to bring disaster.
Will the future be a bright utopia or a dark dystopia?
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Nuclear power, regardless of its use, produces nuclear waste.
A hazardous waste containing radioactive substances remains volatile to organic life for tens of thousands of years in the near term and millions of years on the far end. Nuclear waste is neutral. So we take it as a clue to a neutral world, leaving space for the audience to imagine and discuss whether that world is good.
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What if there is a world where nuclear waste accumulates, and humans must coexist?
In this world, mushrooms will be a warning sign to keep people away from nuclear radiation areas.
Each generation of humans will participate in designing and renewing the mushrooms as warning signs, enabling the transmission of signals into the future.
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In this theme, we want to imagine the future and look at the present with long-term thinking from the deep time perspective. Humans of this era can always see the positive side of nuclear power, and few people are aware of the long-lasting effects of the nuclear waste it generates. We should explore the potential impact that technology can have on the environment and society and how we might think and act when we see such a possibility. We are also exploring the options of living things, imaging their possible relationship to humans, and thinking about whether we can use the characteristics of living things and integrate them into the human cultural vocabulary.









