Portfolio of Yuguo Liu

Trade To TreeA Speculative Design Project of Minseo and Yoogle

Anthropocene is the recent geologic age that human influenced. At this age we human extract what want without considering consequences.We imapct the environment we are living. We dominant this planet and we give priority to economic development.

w h a t i f t h e r e i s a f u t r u e ca l le d p o st -anthropocene.

At first, we think about post-anthropocene is post-human. It means there is no human in the society. As a spceculation design is reflection of reality. So to lead such a future, we thought about disaster and non-human zone. Such as Chernobyl.The reason should be strong enough l ike nuclear disaster.

H oweve r, i t i s i m p ro p e r to d e s i g n i n g speculation and arousing a debate. The reasons are as follow. Firstly, disaster making human disappeared is too fictional to lead the audiences to believe. Secondly, nuclear or other disasters future directly project our current issues and using it reveal us protecting our environment is not something new. So it is difficult to make us critique and think more. Thirdly, Design is the medium to change us to suit the world not the end of civilization.

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Dunne and Raby's "Foragers"Hasegawa's "I wanna Deliver a Shark"Thomas's "Goatmant"These projects inspired us to move the another topic. Post-antropocene is not only human disappeared, and also considering to change human mind thinking post-anthropocentricly. It could be projection of food shortage, transhuman in high-tech and also save an endangered animals within over-population.

What if there is we human blend in the nature system that we need it to be eco. What if there is no cosuming led by commercial ads. What if we stay in a healthy system that we pay for what we get from this system. There is no owner and ownership. Spices sell their values by themselves and what we exchanging is aside by rules. Everything is valued by their own, We bartering with other spices.

First Prototype

It still stay in the position of consuming society. So exchanging is not only a money des ign . And the value sytem behind the exchanging media.

Bio-Electronic Currency

Black Stack

Inspirations

In now days, high-tech payment is a mature technology universally. So what if we project our future money, it should be something better than current devices.What's more society is changing. Like the black stack mentioned, it could be a new struture which around resourse and new rules

Using a market store to create the environment and scenario between the tree and human. Seeking the possible way that trees actual ly interact with others. One of their behaviours is they make carbon trade with their root. They create value and pay it their roots. So trade with human might be the similar way. Otherwise, we planned to express the idea by a interactive method and empathy.

Making Interactive shoes for human and trees

We used paper and clays to make gaint tree root for viewer to play the role as a tree. And we made a sneaker to represent human. On the tree root there are lots of tags which is the bacatira for tress the transfer theri values. And another side, Human use his sneakers to touch the point to get the infomation for the tree. All the information wes installed into the tags. Besides, considering trees move slowly. So we increased the weight of the root for tree side moving hardly.

We built a simple user flow to let viewers run the basic scenario that could be the demand of human requiring from the tree and the other side.Comparing with market activities in reality, this also includes : pricing, negotiation, supply-demand relationship changing and job finding.

Final ProductInteractive Sneakerfor human side

Final ProductRoot Bootsfor tree s ide

Interacting with the partnerWhen you tap the tags.There will be a screent to give informations for both.The human side could only see the red content because he wares a blue glasses.On the other hand, the tree can see blue

content in a red glasses.

Human purchasing fruit from the tree side

Human pay for air pollution to tree

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