Abstract
Substrate Fantasia is a speculative fabulation of a substrate-centered world called Substratocene in 2180 - a transitional era between current Anthropocene towards an ecological utopia. Through a short film, a living mushroom chair and a series of livable sporing suit, the project takes a radical position to use design objects and lifestyles to portray a more-than-human future. Rather than consuming constructed objects, humans use bodies to co-create objects with fungi: human body weight becomes the shape transformer of chair seating area while the mycelium is growing. A new kind of wearable also is also being invented to help transport spores of fungi. This material possibility enables a new social system of sporing via human bodies, representing multispecies co-evolution and entanglement.
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Multispecies Entanglement, Design Fiction, Sustainability, Material Interaction, Mycelium, Bio-polymers
