Nanyi Jiang

Projects
CraftingAbout

TYPE OF WORK 
MFA Thesis

YEAR 
2022-2024
IMPACT
Core77 Sustainability Student Notable (2023)
Art + Tech Exhibition and Audience Favorite Award (2024)
OVERVIEWSubstrate Fantasia is a speculative fabulation of a substrate-centered world called Substratocene in 2180 - a transitional era between current Anthropocene towards an ecological utopia. The fabulation is illustrated through physical prototypes of living fungi chair, sporing garments and their nurseries. Through new interactions with living bio-interfaces in furnitures and garments, the work propose behavioral and attitudinal change in Substratocene

This Substrate Fantasia film is collage of three vignettes in Substratocene:
I. Substratization Lab
II.Human-Fungi Co-living Experience
III. Re-defined Social Exchange