LIVING TECHNOLOGY

Collaborated with  Fashion Design students, RCA; Mathilde Krab Nymann and Bianca Buche, 2016

Role: User Researcher, Visualiser, Video Maker

Service Design, Fashion, Technology

Will Energy resources be running out?

In the future, Energy resources will be running out. Regarding the problem with energy resources, it’s time to come up with a sustainable alternatively by using garment to generate energy. when looking at existing garments within the technical domain. They all seem to be wearable hardware. Moreover, it appeared that only on energy-harvesting technology was used.

Oil will be gone by 2052. We will still have gas and coal left but if we increase gas production to fill the energy gap left by oil, then those reserves will only give us an additional eight years, taking us to 2060. The coal deposits we know about will only give us enough energy to take us as far as 2088.

Total energy production in 2015 is 27.5 Million tonnes of all equivalent.

Technology has become a key component in our daily private consumption of energy. We constantly require energy for our devices that enable us to connect the world around us. An article in the guardian claims that "Today's teenagers use technology to stay in touch with friends at all the times, turning their bedrooms into connected cacoons". Furthermore, the young generation is called as 'the wire generation'

We are permanently plugged into a network of digital devices with limitless communication, which is inconsistent with our consumption of expiring resources.

HOW MIGHT WE COMBINE BOTH OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TO CREATE RENEWABLE ENERGY?

OUR SERVICE

Create a garment to harvest the energy from both human (body heat & body movement)  and environment (Solar cell & Wind energy) and convert it into electrical energy.