Degree projects explore design as criticism and attract international attention
Kirkegaard's theories have inspired the project
"Today we can design life in practice, and to relate to the development of technology, I wanted to investigate philosophical theories about the importance of existence in our time. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard believes that existence is not what has happened, it looks at the possibilities and absurdities of man, everything that we can become, says Rebecka.
According to Kirkegaard, humans live either aesthetically or ethically. In my project, the aesthetician becomes a parable for fleeting pleasures, chance and inconsistency. The aesthetician designs the man of the future. What is the incentive behind evolutionary change and what will man want to be?
We want to question our time in a thoughtful way.
Using the Consequence Game method and CRISPR technology as tools, she speculates on how we design the human being of the future. Serious questions have to face playful methods whereupon absurd portrayals arise.
"I believe so strongly that if ideas and idioms are not challenged and developed, we don't change reality either," he said. I would encourage the viewer to question our time and contemporary view of humanity in an imaginative, worrying and thought-provoking way. If a project is to be effective and influential, I think it must include criticism and problems to some extent," says Rebecka.
Vogue Talents and Aesthetica Magazine have highlighted the project
The project has attracted the attention of Vogue Talents (Vogue Italia), which each year selects the creators of the future for its September Issue. This time the theme was "Fearless Generations" and an image from Exquisite Corpse, selected for the collage that made up the magazine's cover. This, in turn, has led to publication in Aesthetica Magazine's October/November edition (Issue 103) in the category "Aesthetica's Artists' Directory", a platform for the most innovative practitioners in art and culture today.
"I'm inspired by the field of design as a critique, exploring ideas before they become a reality, and asking questions rather than giving answers," he said. As a designer, I want to give visual clues, but the viewer can on his own initiative imagine the world to which the design belongs, which includes, among other things, its politics, social relations and ideology, a balancing act that I think Vogue Talents saw in the project.