Organism

Integrated futures: EMBODYING A NON HUMAN PERSPECTIVE Imagine how this world is experienced from the perspective of the other than human perspective. This could be a biological micro-system, animal or synthetic intelligence. Attempt to live and describe a day in a life timescale equivalent as your other than human collaborator, documenting your experiences, reactions, and frustrations in written, visual, auditory, and other formats. Do your best to inhabit that experience and describe sensory qualities and stimuli and describe how you perceive the world through chemicals, smell, sound, etc. This is an exercise for you to inhabit a non-human perspective and a philosophical investigation into if such a thing is even possible. Respond to your organism’s environment, stimuli, and behavior—try to establish a dialogue and dynamic of reciprocity. Surviving Ecological Collapse Post human or nearing end of human existence. Surface water on the planet has been depleted drastically, climate change has made a majority of land inhospitable for previous land dwelling animals. Arid and desolate, most organisms are drought resistant or in oceans. One of the most common life forms on land is now this organism. An air dwelling creature that adapted to secure its water source from atmospheric moisture through osmosis. During storms and in the mornings dawn, when the air is moist the creature absorbs this source of sustenance from the landscape. This is when it is most vulnerable to predation since It’s body gains water weight that makes it unable to float and flee. It has an air bladder similar to deep ocean species to regulate its elevation and a moisture organ which stores and ejects water if necessary to ensure its ability to be airborne. Its movements are propelled by fin like wings and small underbelly limbs to move on land surfaces. Inspired by dandelion tufts, jellyfish, cuttlefish and other sea creatures.