- quilt plastic bags
- weave plastic bags together
- stitch parts of plastic bags on fabric
- embroider image on
- stitch together old clothes and scraps
- cut out smiley faces from bags and handstitch
- melt down the plastic bags??
- go to thrift store for fabrics to reuse
- fully biodegradable textile
- use used tea bags
- go through my recyclables
- newspaper articles of warning
- plastic bucket hat
- food receipts
- UN 2030 Goals Quilt
- umbrella from old plastic
- use leaves
- various green textures
- dried foods
- vertical farming
- greenhouses
- no more glass skyscrapers
- green walls
- green roofs
- algae
- biofuel
- ban on single use plastic
- package free shopping
- oystertecture
- solar panels
- windmills
- water generated energy
- tote bags
- more farmer’s markets
- less big supermarkets
- urban farms
- biodegradable fashion
- biodegradable masks
- carbon absorbing clothes
- carbon absorbing buildings
- more biking
- no cars in cities
- electric cars
- mostly summer year round
- DIY culture
- ai markets
- shared workspaces (like wework)
- work from home
- outdoor dining
- bubbles for outdoor dining
- hyperloop
- travel by water
- city in a tower
- even taller skyscrapers
- everyone lives in cities
- composting
- whole food cycle
- vegans
- nose-to-tail if eating meat
- use whole vegetables
- bamboo gardens
- “instagrammable” attractions
- ban amazon packaging
- green juices
- no more fast fashion
- buy second hand
- on computer all day
- can get anything delivered
- no more cable tv
- youtube is tv
- short attention spans
- reusable bottles
- cafes only use reusable mugs
- less disposable cutlery
- more picnics
- drive-in movies
- live in cars
- canoes
- live in ships
- retrofit houses
- later gen immigrants try to return to roots
- ai pets?
- excess
- bad posture
- tech neck
- online museums
- tattoos
- healthier foods
- news through social media
- clothes made from tree branches
- mini homes
- netted bags
- clothes from fruits
- marathons
- online friends
- retro trends
- nostalgia
- bluetooth
- lightweight fabrics
- instant
Category: Gallery
Encoded Cloth Part 2- Marissa
- reversible cloak
- wearable patchwork jacket with headlines
- naturalist clothes that encourage adapting to nature
- eco-friendly plant material
- pants that encourage movement (track steps?)
- more widespread use of public transport
- sun hat that’s “anti-aging”
- street fashion that amplified voices
- face masks w metallic microbial/antiviral properties bc superbugs will be a problem
- masks for wildfires
- fireproof clothing
- quilt mapping conservation efforts
- quilt for restored habitat
- quilt to amplify indigenous voices and support their land
- gender neutral clothing
- ^ specifically gender neutral dresses
- uncomfortable jacket for the uncomfortable transition btwn beliefs
- distressed garments to symbolize breaking down outdated beliefs
- mangrove tree quilt
- smart textiles that let you walk in another’s shoes
- radiation protective blanket
- warming earth summer fashion
- all weather/terrain outfit
- articles made by items collected by the ocean clean up project
- protect coral reefs
- cape for nuclear winter
- scientific journals v. pop science
- clickbait
- map of daily water usage
- map global freshwater shortage
- emphasize importance of freshwater
- shoes made for walking slow; change of pace
- handmade reusable shopping totes
- topographical map urbanization/globalization
- community self care
- reflective material that changes appearance with light
- disruption of migration patterns
- coexistence with animals in cities
- chernobyl wolves, mutations
- non profit global outreach, play with perspective
- ocean acidification, acid dyeing
- natural dyeing; natural v synthetic
- BIOMIMICRY (nature inspired fabrics):
- gecko grip, textiles for strength
- sandgrouse or namid desert beetle water retention
- anti-freeze proteins (hypothermia/space plants)
- holographic material
- wearable cameras/lenses to enhance perception of environment
- storage! pockets, pockets, pockets; could symbolize hoarding/dominion over things
- something that is regenerative
- urban camouflage
- rain gear (ice nucleating particles be causing crazy storms)
- complementary colors to create harmony
- mending previously uninhabitable landscapes
- mending relationships between people
- mending to eliminate gate keeping, bridge the education gap
- smart textile that allows for rechargeable batteries
- sanctuaries and re-wilding, returning to our roots
- animal prints
- an ode the walruses and polar predators melting polar ice caps
- conspiracy theories (reptilian skin lol)
- AI involved in health care
- zero gravity fashionables
- space exploration
- deep sea exploration
- wifi clothing
- labels, accepting/defending identify
- mood ring fabric (gloves??) encourage empathy
- integration with technology, cyborg evolution
- smart textile for temp regulation
- food waste resolution
- erasing misconceptions about sell by dates
- fungi turning food waste into new protein substitutes, scifi sounding resolutions
- vaccines and immunity
- textiles more inclusive of disabilities
- ^conversely beauty standards have become even more unrealistic and unattainable so clothing is ridiculous
- synthetic biology in fabric
- genome editing to produce lighter more breathable material
- smart textiles involving sensors
- ^carcinogen detectors
- biota beats: textiles encoded with microbiome music
- catalysts that break down toxic substances
- bio tech v. sustainable natural fibers
- therapeutic and degenerative polymers
- mental health awareness and removal of stigma (not normalization)
- quilts to reduce anxiety
- mapping population growth and impact, stress strain
- textiles for the aging population
- bluetooth and streaming
- elimination of single use materials
- overcrowding
- changes in human migration
- dismantling of gender roles
- minimalism
- outlandish abstract contemporary
- colors to support a cause/raise awareness
- textiles that encourage opening up/conversation
- functional textiles
- clothing that instills confidence and hope in our future
- my personal 10 yr growth and hopes
encoded cloth p2 – maddie
- robots that play instruments by mimicking motions of past players
- mood changing lights
- vr workplace
- self cleaning shoes
- color changing textiles
- clothes that can quickly be tailored
- air filtering mask fashion
- autonomous public transport
- biomass energy
- temperature controlled clothes/outerwear
- war over water
- green buildings
- vertical gardens
- enclosed large scale agriculture
- small scale agriculture? –> single household
- no more cars
- teleportation
- ai artists
- enlarged art with robots
- soft monuments –> giant plushies
- fast global communication
- underwater communities
- plarn knit bags
- automatic building risers
- fully diverse communities
- moving bridges
- moving staircases
- giant dogs
- underwater vacations
- life in space
- smart glasses
- contacts with tech
- sound chips in head
- no trees –> all burned
- burnt landscapes
- synthetic gardens
- many skylights
- auto brightness lights
- rain filtering
- trash mountains taller than Mt. Everest
- unstainable shirts
- underwater paths
- walk on ocean floor
- commoditized air like in the lorax
- super shrinking/growing
- trash compacting robot ai like wall e
- restickable stickers / non permanent stickers
- robotic swimming / swim assist in deep water
- teleportation
- avg life expectancy +10 years
- faster space travel
- green fuel sources
- space fashion
- among us becomes real life – in space ship with imposters
- communicate with pets
- indoor household gardens
- auto care robots for gardens / agriculture
- convertible shoes
- color changing cars
- expandable cars
- real hoverboard
- holographic travel – like vr but in the real world without physically traveling??
- no one leaves the house ever again
- cloning dead people
- dead people ai?
- personal theme music playing in ear
- robots that do hair
- holographic performances
- dream projecting
- life simulator with people/places/things from own life
- secret entrances
- magnet cars – like maglev train but cars?
- giant butterflies
- wings for humans
- vr in more video games
- virtual conversation with life size screens – feels like you’re really talking to them
- flood damage to homes
- people stranded in floods
- better prosthetics
- snowing ash from fires
- smoky/hazy skies
- no single use containers/packaging/etc.
- dead coral reefs
- permanent makeup
- endless protests
- free music streaming to all
- giant tablets
- cure to cancer
- still in COVID-19 pandemic in 2030
- no pandemic but still wear masks because everyone is scared of germs
- houses integrated with nature
- giant tree houses!!
- rainforests rebuilt
- rainforests destroyed
- giant pandas extinct
- large igloos in winter
- enlarged snowflakes
- ice travel
- very elevated houses
- california burnt to a crisp
100 Ideas
By: Remi Adeoti
- hazy sky
- fire
- white house
- American flag
- white supremacy organization symbols
- confederate flag
- “We the People”
- “In God we Trust”
- blood tree
- roots to slavery
- rice
- whips
- hoses
- teeth
- ropes
- lynching
- white coats
- slave patrol=police officer star
- politicians
- Supreme Court justices
- weaving black woman
- heart=humanity
- Blood dripping from sun
- dark new moon
- grim reaper
- ten commandments
- bible
- skeletons
- music notes
- trail of blood
- tear gas cans
- ivy
- chains
- loose limbs
- evil eye
- witchcraft
- potions
- rag dolls
- dreads
- braids
- lots of hair
- cameras
- flashing lights
- tv
- phones
- radios
- bonnets
- durags
- pregnant woman
- giving birth
- globe covered in dripping blood
- paper and pen
- backwards/ non- linear story line
- diary
- burning forests
- “NO”
- “HATE”
- bruised face
- spotlights
- roots
- animals
- marine life
- the levels of life
- hell
- marine life
- land
- wildfires
- war
- global warming
- purgatory
- heaven
- flipped tree
- hangings in hell
- roots to heaven
- bullets
- bats/clubs
- silver lining
- unity
- washing hand
- the creation of Adam
- weaving
- sewing outlines
- mixed race
- black titans
- chopped up bodies
- clan masks
- bird masks
- African mask
- health mask
- crematorium
- cemetery
- sprinklers
- smoke
- handcuffs
- huge watering can
- blood money
- scarves
Encoded Cloth Part 1- Marissa
The current environmental and social issues we are experiencing in 2020 make imagining the year 2030 a very interesting challenge. I can imagine both an idealistic and catastrophic future that is entirely dependent on how we respond to our current natural and social climate. In 10 years, our generation will be assuming positions of power, and we can choose to steer away from destruction.
In 2030, the effects of climate change will still be felt heavily pronounced around the world, and the impact on industrial first world countries will bring more unrest but also more collective action is dismantling the system that currently allows mega-corporations to reign unchecked. There will be more jobs in clean energy, and people will be supporting sustainable practices in farming and fishing etc. The cultural shift in opinion around climate change will come with a transition in the public away from selfish and cynical ideologies towards upholding collective, generous, and attentive values. This transition will demand people to change their habits of consumption, and there will be continued resistance.
Mass consumption of media and resources is not sustainable, but technology continues to make things faster and shorten our attention spans. There is a great amount of distractibility in the media and pop science we consume now, and that can entertain illusions about reality. We’re often so distanced and desensitized to the media we consume, and we move on to the next trending topic without much further discussion. The pandemic has derailed our lives and shaken our sense of comfort, but the shutdown has also given us a chance to finally slow down, self-reflect, and realize just how vulnerable and dependent we actually are. In 2030, I’d like to imagine that excessive and rapid consumption is no longer the accepted norm. This will not immediately fix or magically undo all of the environmental and social damage, but more people will pick their heads up and pay attention to problems they have managed/chosen to avoid.
The scariest thing I can imagine for the environment in 2030, however, is nothing. We are such a future oriented society, and usually people only think about extinction as a process that wipes out an entire species in every age group at once. But in the age of fossil fuels, extinction can happen covertly when the first days of life become simply too difficult for the youngest members of a species to survive. In 2030, there are no corpses making flashy trending headlines, just increasing handfuls of nothing. All of life has the right to renew, regenerate, and heal itself, and while the idea of absence is terrifying to me, I can only hope that the weight of it all will show people just how reliant on nature we really are.
Encoded Cloth – Part 2 – Jasmine
- Treasure map
- X marks the spot
- Location map
- Qr codes
- Landmark key
- Manifesto
- Quote from leaders
- Home base
- Territorial disputes
- Record of historical borders
- Corporate logos
- Military strategies
- Wildfires
- Uninhabitable land
- Strongholds
- Coded message
- Morse code
- Color code
- Computer warfare
- Flooded areas
- Topographical land map
- Corporate headquarter locations
- Water sources
- Lasting strongholds of nature
- Migration from coasts
- Sources of oil spill/fracking
- Strands of fabric from different origins
- Global movement for regulations
- “Threads” of people coming together as a whole
- Electric cars
- Corporate police
- Farmland shortage
- Housing crisis
- Cave paintings
- Dot pattern code
- Superimposed morse
- Sustainable energy sources
- Sun as a god
- Windmills
- Nuclear energy
- Ocean wave energy converters
- Seawall map
- Lots of blue
- Line graphs
- Stock market crash
- Processed foods
- Trickle down system
- Surveillance
- Overabundance of advertisements
- Protests
- Unions
- Drones
- Monopolies
- Eat the rich
- NASA
- Barter system
- Home grown produce
- Second-life items
- Housing crisis
- Farm living
- Boat houses
- Bridge building
- Artificial islands
- Firefighting drones
- Reclaiming land
- Danger zones
- Canned air
- Noise pollution earphones
- Social media giants
- Walkie talkies
- Broadcasting systems
- Depleted fish populations
- Reviving fish populations
- Algae blooms
- Polar ice caps melting
- 100 year storms
- Matrix of the earth
- Robinson map
- Authagraph map
- Peirce quincincial map
- Relocation of states
- Landfill eating machines
- Victory gardens
- Rural migration
- Tornadoes
- Maker culture
- Plastic architecture
- Bio architecture
- Zero waste initiatives
- Angry youth
- Volunteer campaigns
- Educational save energy school comics
- Corporate jail
- Non profit organization growth
- Community collectives
- Urban rooftop farms
- Urban rooftop rainwater collection
- Canary in a cage
- No snow
- Small businesses
100 ideas of Encoded Clothes – Kimberly
- Burnt quilt with nature/greenery on it
- Eye covering with technology on one side and nature on the other
- Trashed shirt that was ethically made
- A design of a perfectly green planet of the past
- Quilt with extreme fire, water, and air weathering
- Zoo like quilt – extinct animals
- 10 years from COVID 19 – face masks??
- Quilt with relocation paths of people
- A map of earth but all unlivable parts are blacked out
- Even cheaper, worse quality fast fashion clothing
- Summer clothing from climate change
- Gender neutral fashion
- AI developed clothing
- 3D printed clothing
- Clothing that filters pollutants (masks?)
- Reusable bags
- Not plastic food wrapping
- Reusable bags for tupperware/glass jars
- Story quilt of what we miss the most
- Timeline patchwork of each decade so far
- Air particle filtering mask
- Patchwork of COVID face masks
- Clothing that people wear on Mars
- What people wear on the Moon
- Green fashion
- Burnt flag of corrupt countries
- Web of everyone connected by the internet
- World war plans
- Other planet clothes
- Hive mind quilt
- True conspiracy theories
- Cloth from melted plastic
- Clothes made from trash
- All ebooks
- Loose pages of book in a quilt
- Paperless money aka venmo
- Hologram fabric
- Scorched pants
- Fireman suit but lighter for daily wear
- Rain jackets that doubles as fire repellant
- Cheese cloths but better to make drinkable water
- Face masks like the ones we have now but for your entire face
- Space efficient reusable water bottles
- Skyline but some building are chipped/fallen
- Skyline of broken landmarks
- Skyline but bombings
- More functioning clothes
- Plants made of cloth
- Helmet that filters air
- Tech fabric
- Water resistant clothes
- Cracked grounds quilt
- Desert quilt
- Evolution of tech
- Evolution of countries
- Before and After COVID 19
- The weathering of a tree over the last 10 years
- Broken houses and neighborhoods
- Green structured architecture
- Recycled fabric
- Structures made from trash
- Dark city days
- Orange skies on fire
- Modern clothes being thrifted as vintage
- Computer that are even higher tech
- Built in lights better than lamps
- Fabric scraps woven together
- Plastic woven together
- Fashion out of plastic stuff
- Toxic oceans
- Black lakes and waters also covered in trash
- Melted snow caps
- Volcano eruptions and tsunami damage
- Technology controlled by eye movements
- Either bigger or smaller clothing depending on the weather
- Ever changing winds and weather
- Cleaner living building/neighborhoods away from the destruction
- The last few specifics of animals in their own sanctuary
- Abandoned cities and areas full of rubble and trash
- More and more graveyards and landfills
- Smoky buildings and cities
- Real models of solar system
- Buildings on other planets
- Better ways to travel to outer space
- Either a lot of people gone or overpopulation and cramped areas
- Current computers and phones as relics
- Hats that offer greater protection than style
- People connected through technology in their eyes & ears
- Neck and back braces from overuse of technology
- Destruction of governments and rise of people
- Effects of nuclear war
- Rising ocean levels and underwater cities
- Food thats evolved from our own based on climate change
- More processed foods to combat harsh climates
- Index of natural fruits and vegetables there once was
- My life in the last 10 years as a quilt
- Family trees as digital quits
- Random obsolete things we have now that got replaced my machines
- New machines that got integrated into daily life
- Faster travel and plans for better airplanes
100 Ideas – Annie
1 | – technology |
2 | – electronics |
3 | – electronics story telling |
4 | – sensor integration |
5 | – cloth that can change color based on light |
6 | – auto camaflogue clothes |
7 | – leds? |
8 | – moving cloth |
9 | – futuristic colors |
10 | – cyberpunk |
11 | – mask fashion |
12 | – cyberpunk masks |
13 | – masks integrated with other wearables |
14 | – glasses integrated mask |
15 | – headphone integration |
16 | – climate disaster |
17 | – prints with extinct animals |
18 | – prints with endangered animals |
19 | – texture variety – different changing biomes |
20 | – lots of green/shades of green |
21 | – water |
22 | – clean water – filterable cloth |
23 | – clothes for dry climate |
24 | – pollution |
25 | – plastic cloth |
26 | – cloth from woven bags |
27 | – cloth from repurposed plastic |
28 | – metal cloth? from aluminum cans |
29 | – chainmail/chain from recycled cans |
30 | – space |
31 | – spacesuit like outfit |
32 | – space masks |
33 | – conquering and exploring – looking at previous outfits and making them more space-like |
34 | – plant replacement |
35 | – companion plant |
36 | – squishable succulent plant |
37 | – companion plushies |
38 | – like a story quilt but plant |
39 | – wish tree – but plant |
40 | – pockets |
41 | – dresses with pockets |
42 | – pants with pockets |
43 | – more pockets everywhere |
44 | – blankets with pockets |
45 | – blankets that suck at insulating but are really good for heat dissipation so you can curl up in them in summer |
46 | – story quilt for all extinct animals |
47 | – story quilt for extinct plants |
48 | – story quilt for extinct insects/bugs |
49 | – cloth to represent data |
50 | – climate change cloth |
51 | – co2 tracking cloth |
52 | – temp tracking cloth |
53 | – population growth cloth |
54 | – evolution termination cloth |
55 | – political shenanigans cloth |
56 | – ripped jeans but worse |
57 | – ripped shirts |
58 | – ripped shoes |
59 | – ripped socks |
60 | – ripped hats |
61 | – ripped some other clothing |
62 | – cosplay |
63 | – super realistic cosplay |
64 | – ai designer clothing |
65 | – ai generated cloth |
66 | – deeplearning stuff but with traditional patterns |
67 | – deeplearning stuff to combine traditional garments |
68 | – ai generated “human race” clothing |
69 | – f it, combine all traditional cultural clothing that ever existed, and just see what ai comes upw with |
70 | – meme cloth |
71 | – meme story quilt |
72 | – graveyard of memes |
73 | – social media quilt |
74 | – zuck cloth |
75 | – crochet food |
76 | – edible clothing |
77 | – cloth that represents the evolution of food |
78 | – idk man im hungry |
79 | – ice pack beanie for headaches |
80 | – music clothing? |
81 | – cloth that represents music |
82 | – cloth that captures the sync/techno music |
83 | – ai musicians? vtube musician merch? |
84 | – personal story cloth |
85 | – journey into ten years |
86 | – 10 years of introspection |
87 | – hopes and dreams for the next 10 years |
88 | – video game evolution |
89 | – changing lens of the world |
90 | – conspiracy theorists |
91 | – spiral of madness |
92 | – soft robotics |
93 | – space beanstalk |
94 | – blueprint cloth of futuristic tech |
95 | – clean energy |
96 | – nuclear energy |
97 | – death of coal and oil |
98 | – nature growing over abandoned places |
99 | – reclaiming of nature |
100 | – human migration/immigration due to natural disasters |
Encoded Cloth from the Future (100 ideas) – Erica Fu
- Wildfires blazing everywhere.
- Rising sea levels and flooding that causes society to create many high rise buildings.
- Improved transportation and super fancy vehicles
- Green buildings everywhere
- Civil war in America
- AR/VR takes over everyone’s lives
- Everyone is increasingly connected online and people from different countries with different languages can communicate with ease
- We will have traveled to the moon again
- There are humans on Mars
- Many endangered animals are extinct
- Holographic/see through phones
- Only virtual/remote learning
- No more Earth
- Magical diapers so toilets can cease to exist
- Autonomous vehicles
- Automated job selection
- Automated medical care
- Automated design work
- Automated banking and loan giving
- Robotic pets
- COVID-19 vaccine
- Cure for cancer
- CMU rank 1
- iPhone 22
- All of the content we see online is controlled by Facebook
- Brain controlled technology
- Commercially sold e-textiles
- Everyone becomes vegan
- Everything is reusable or made of recycled materials
- Actual hoverboards
- No need to the leave house to live
- New president
- Asia will have even more powerful
- All electric cars
- No cars at all
- Underwater travel through tunnels
- Deep sea exploration
- Deep space exploration
- 10G
- Commercial manipulation of human genes
- Effective wireless charging
- Long distance wireless charging
- Wireless appliances
- Wireless technology
- Development of solar energy
- Lack of 02 on Earth
- No more drinkable water
- Flooding
- No trees
- Atomic bomb war
- WWIII
- Dumping trash into space
- Fixing the overfull landfills
- Failing to fix overfull landfills, effectively overcrowding the earth with trash
- Overpopulation
- Thanos like population control
- Using eye/pupil identification
- Must identify yourself everywhere
- No privacy at all
- Humans cease to exist
- Depleted fossil fuels
- No more drinkable water
- New genetically modified super animals for consumption
- Teleportation
- Flying boots
- No more paper for writing
- No more plastic straws
- Good replacement for plastic straws
- Helper robots everywhere
- Chips in humans for tracking
- Drones to deliver packages
- Learning by downloading into your brain
- Decreased languages
- More racial mixing
- Ability to control the weather
- Automatically hot shower water
- Change in the American school system
- No standardized testing
- Revival of 2010 fashion
- The second coming
- Gold will be worthless
- Bitcoin will take over currency
- Instant charging of devices
- Useful google glasses
- Smart contact lenses
- Booster shoes for speed
- Cooking with AR
- AR meetings and calling
- AR learning for elementary school students
- Maximum efficiency motors and engines
- Unlimited free wifi
- No more food deserts
- No more poverty
- Peace among everyone
- Free college tuition
- Invention of true black materials (reflects 0 light)
- No more radio
- Unlimited storage on devices
- “Anti-pc-ness” movement
- No more cds
Pt 1. Imagining the Future – Annie
It’s 2030 – ten years past the COVID-pandemic, and humanity has not yet done enough to slow greenhouse emissions, and therefore climate change has only gotten worse and worse. Hurricane season had come back stronger over and over, and the southeastern coast of the US is unlivable between that and the rising sea levels. Wildfire season is unmanageable. More and more animals have been going extinct in the wild, and efforts to rehabilitate rarer animals have redoubled.
Seeing this, more rational world governments have introduced harsh taxes on greenhouse gas emissions. Electric cars and clean energy become popular, gardens on balconies and rooftops are widely seen in large cities, and a large campaign to “save nature” begins, its efforts too little, too late. Blue skies become more and more rare within cities, and smog seems to be the norm. Efforts to create air filtering technology redouble.
Technology and automation have become a much larger part of people’s lives, and wearable tech has become all the rage. Google glasses have made a comeback, with more competitors. Apple’s iPhone now has 20 cameras on the back, and for some reason, people keep buying it. Self driving technology becomes more commonplace, and Uber’s and Lyft’s become more safe. Video games have evolved as well, and NerveGear becomes the next step after VR.
Automation has taken over many more dangerous jobs, and the skill levels needed for jobs has decreased due to the amount of assistance automation provides. This results in the job market being more open to people with lower levels of education, and an increasing middle class. The fast food industry will be taken over by robots. McDonald’s McFlurry machine will never break again. As much as life has been enhanced and eased by technology, human skill and labor is still valued.
Humanities attempts at going back to the moon as succeeded, and the moon colonization process has begun. Scientists have a regular base there, and people with enough money are now able to spend a few weeks for vacation on the moon. Space outfits become trendy. People are looking forward to the first humans landing on Mars.