Welcome to 2123
2023.09-11
Welcome to 2123, a futuristic design experiment that envisions new evolutionary forms of future fleas and explores innovative ways to reshape the relationship between humans and fleas.
2123 aims to speculate on the potential future of the flea within the context of the entangled evolution of fleas and human beings. It seeks to explore a new interspecies equilibrium relationship between humans and fleas. This exploration addresses the question of whether the flea, long influenced by humans, can eventually exert influence or reshape human beings. Fostering a deeper understanding of our connection with the natural world.
Going back to the evolution of the flea, their ancestors belonged to the order Longiptera, featuring long mouths and a diet of nectar. They lived in forests, where they enjoyed more space and freedom.
The evolution of the human race has led to the intervention of human activities in nature, affecting the flea's environment and forcing them to start their evolution. Today, fleas have evolved hind legs with superior jumping ability and have become pests that humans hate. They followed humans to the cities, roaming the dark and damp corners, living by ingesting blood and spreading disease. Under the influence of humans, the flea's survival has been greatly restricted and tends to be unbalanced.
With large-scale human development will come more intensive human activities, causing new challenges to environmental pollution and climate. In such an environment, fleas have begun a new evolution. Larger, stronger bodies and the ability to reproduce have earned them more suitable living space. Also, the rise in air temperature and humidity led to an increase in blood-sucking. Thus, the work images an even more far-future scenario, when the vastly increased population of mutant fleas leads to an oversupply of blood, and they have to turn to absorb human body waste: fat, dander, sweat, and evolve the corresponding body structures. In response to the flea's new changes, humans attempted to collect the body's waste through bodily devices for the flea to take. Therefore, a new co-operative cyclical relationship between humans and fleas will be achieved, reducing the direct spread of disease.