Category: Encoded Cloth from the Future

Our chosen Idea:

Clothing that adjusts to your body temperature (future technology)

Our 100 Ideas list:

1. Invisible suit
2. air conditioning suit
3. heating suit
4. clothes that changes color based on wearer’s emotion
5. clothes that glow at night
6. Clothes that stretch 
7. Clothes that can protect your body from the attack of wild animals 
8. Clothes that enhance your athletic abilities 
9. Mask that enhance your eyesight 
10. Gloves that can protect your hand from heat 
11. Clothes that can protect your body from infection
12. Clothes with curing functionality
13. Clothes that can self repair
14. Clothes that does not have to be washed
15. UV protective clothes
16. Stain repellent clothes
17. Flame resistant clothes
18. Ultra strength clothes 
19. Clothes that can protect you from outside forces 
20. Clothes that can sensor danger
21. Clothes that can keep your body moisturized 
22. Shoes that can make you walk faster
23. Glass that functions as a computer
24. Body suit that tells the current condition of your body 
25. Body suit with electrical lightings 
26. Body suit that can be used when hunting 
27. Body suit that makes you exercise 
28. Clothes that resembles jellyfish
29. Shoes that can make you fly
30. Body suits that can make you fly
31. Clothes that can check your schedule and inform your to-do list
32. Stain repellent clothes
33. Clothes that warn you when in danger 
34. Clothes that protects the wearer from pressure 
35. Clothes that replicate nature aspects
36. 3dimensional clothing
37. Multi-media clothing
38. Shape-shifting clothing
39. Fire safe clothing
40. Clothing that adjusts to your body temperature (future technology)
41. Clothing that has water and coral reefs on it
42. Piece of clothing that had no carbon dioxide production involved
43. Clothing that took the least amount of water to create
44. Ar clothing
45. Functional clothing
46. Clothing that have interfaces incorporated users can interact with
47. Space-safe suit which has oxygen backpack
48. Clothes that are completely made of vegetable/fruit fibers
49. Clothes that can configure itself into different looks
50. Clothes that are so light but strong it doesn’t feel like one is wearing them (future technology)
51. Clothes that are not sewn, but a one piece magnetic possibly (safety concern)
52. Sun UV ray protection clothes
53. Clothes that can protect you in the coldest temperatures
54. Clothes that have slight acupuncture points/or possibly needles
55. Clothes that are able to help you de-sweat and focus
56. Comfortable clothes that are seamless
57. Jacket that has a pocket for everything needed
58. Clothes that can be charged (aka. Have more heat and better circulation)
59. Clothes that are tailored to people with digestive issues
60. Clothes connected to smartphone
61. Bacteria-power clothes
62. Smart jewelry
63. Clothes that can collect medical data
64. Color-changing clothes
65. Clothes connected to wifi
66. Clothes which can detect difference in heart rate
67. Design – connect nature with technology 
68. Design – combine fire red with cold blue
69. Design – vine-like grass and lava
70. Design – apple watch symbolism
71. Design – iphone symbolism
72. 3d printed clothes
73. Magnetic clothing (create different styles of outfits by clipping pieces together)
74. Digital fashion
75. Smart fabric cloth (electronic textile)
76. Sensory clothes that detect food poisoning
77. Waterproof clothing
78. Smart shoes
79. Clothing with adjustable settings used on phone
80. Clothing that adjusts to your body size
81. Zero waste clothing 
82. Clothing that protects you from the sunlight 
83. Clothing that monitors biometrics
84. Smart backpack share social media to show people in surroundings not just online
85. Clothing to collect medical data
86. Mask that blocks other people from hearing what you are saying but the person you are calling can hear
87. Scalable clothing
88. Clothing with advertisements on them
89. Piece of cloth that can shape shift into a backpack or  a skirt etc. 
90. Self cleaning element on the clothing
91. Sanitary bag
92. Hats that filter out sound
93. Wind resistant clothes and umbrella
94. Socks or shoes with pressure sensors (count steps etc.)
95. Cushion like Socks or shoes that prevent blisters 
96. Shoes that adhere to shoe shape
97. Animation bag
98. Fabric that harvests energy
99. Environment friendly clothing 
100. Clothing that changes design depending on where people look

Our 4 Favorite Ideas

1. Playthings/toys of the future, what is comforting and fun/entertaining for the people of the future and how does that reflect their conditions/stressors
   • Stuffed teddy bear, circus animals.
   • Voodoo teddy?
2. What is considered ornate/expensive in the future? How do different classes differentiate themselves by clothing
3. Quilting and using recycled materials
4. What do future generations think of us? What objects from now are kept in museum collections and capture the social moment of today?

100 Ideas

1. Felted trinkets/money
2. Tapestry weaving of overgrown building
3. Representing the original object with a material derived from it (corn plant made out of corn based fabric)
4. Different stages of a “grown” textile, akin to 3d printing
5. The death of the cotton plant in stages, wilting
6. Spliced clothing, exchanging parts of clothes for others
7. Patchwork quilt depicting overgrowth of nature
8. Series of “symbols of power,” objects that are precious in the future that we don’t think about now
9. Story quilt of human innovation/all the new technology
10. New religions/gods depicted that represent what’s valuable to the people of the future
11. Tapestry of a never ending building that continues through the whole thing, apartment complex with windows into the different economic classes
12. Depiction of new monuments to corporate overlords
13. Punch card used to claim food/resources
14. Fragments of old textiles sewn together to be of use
15. Story quilt of a new plague/pandemic
16. Felted nuclear bomb
17. New map of the US with cities underwater
18. Story quilt of communication/conversation between two lovers
19. Parking lot converted into a community garden, story quilt
20. Mended garments
21. Cat toys/pet paraphernalia made of wool/felted
22. Flag of new nation state
23. Flag of surrender covered in blood
24. A plate of a regular meal that’s eaten
25. Loincloth of a caveman (suggests de evolution)
26. Microphone of the people (similar to conch shell in Lord of the flies, vox populi)
27. Headset akin to Google glasses/wearable screens
28. Soothing blanket for babies, wildly different or exactly the same as blankies today (continuation of humanity despite the conditions)
29. extravagant, flamboyant outfits 
    1. because so much of our lives is done remotely & online, going outdoors is less common, so when people do go out, they go all out
30. very minimalistic, highly functional clothing
    1. hyper urban cities do not allow for super large clothing
31. literally growing & incorporating plants into outfits; outfits that have parts that can hold plants
    1. plants literally a part of the weave? or mainly decorative?
32. accessorizing outfits with old, nonrecyclable trash
33. clothes with parts that move/are responsive to external stimulus
34. biodegradable clothes made of natural materials
35. packaging of food with complex patterns and prints
36. return to old, ancient traditional clothing; incorporating old 
37. Quilts with recycled materials
38. Future way of looking back, retro-futurism  
39. Recycled packaging 
40. DIY clothes kit: GIY(Grow It Yourself) Kit?
41. Memorial 
    1. What are they remembering in 2070
42. Protest in 2070
    1. What are they fighting for in 2070
    2. Make a protest banner
43. Miniature town of smaller objects
44. New evolutions of wild animals/domesticated animals
45. Circus/fair, what do people do to entertain themselves? Callback to Roman Colosseum
46. Felted/textile fidget spinner
47. Normal activities that seem mundane and “everyday” objects of the future
48. Increased expression of self in clothing, personalized and return to self-made clothing
49. Textiles of the future adapting to a new environment/climate change
50. Fashion magazine cover of 2070 (imagining the trend)
51. What is the standard of beauty like for fashion? Is it more or less utilitarian?
52. edible clothes
53. wearable currency/credit cards
54. The end of gendered clothing
55. wearable perfume
56. Stuffed teddy bear/stuffed animal that’s more futuristic/ornate
57. Formal wear/what is considered fancy and expensive for this environment
    1. Possibly some materials become more rare in the future and more ostentatious to wear
58. construction materials (e.g. bricks, tiles, etc.) made of recycled textiles
59. Billboard with recycled materials (what are people enjoying as an entertainment)
60. Graphical representation of poverty/inequality
61. Story quilt about increased integration of different cultures and people
62. Dunce cap/embarrassing clothing
    1. What is uncool?
63. Restrictive headwear/blinders to block out the senses and reduce overwhelming information and stimulation
64. Toy loom for children to learn to weave their own clothing, focus on the handmade
65. Fashion accessories for extreme weather 
66. Work uniform of a new type of job
67. Military garb/insignias
68. Water filters made from natural textiles
69. Extraterrestrial map quilt, other planets humans have been to and colonized
70. World map quilt (how does the border change)
71. Superstitious toys
72. gas masks due to poor air quality
73. bags — what are people carrying these days?
74. hats to protect against severe UV light
75. Celebratory clothing, graduation cap and gowns
76. Futuristic wedding dress
77. Protective textiles (kevlar or other advanced textile materials)
78. Supersuit of the future
79. Halloween costume, what’s scary in the future?
80. Ultra-lite packed clothes (have an extra mylar sweater in your back pocket)
81. Crown/royal garb, how do we identify leaders
82. Someone’s 150th birthday cake/hat
83. Playthings made of advanced textiles
84. Invisibility cloaks
85. What textile art looks like, a mini museum display
86. Curiosities of the past/nostalgia that’s now in galleries and museums
87. Something made out of a recycled current fast fashion trend that doesn’t last long
88. Body modification/extension jewelry
89. Quilt made up of just tote bags
90. pieces of fabric that feel cold and uncomforting to the touch, opposite of how we tend to think of fabric now
91. Mini natural robots with sensors/lights embedded
92. Something made of littered face masks from the almost forgotten covid pandemic
93. Stress-relieving textile that produces positive brain chemicals
94. Fall leaves with the date they fell on them, much later in the year like december or january
    1. “The last fall leaf”
95. Piece of a sunlight reflector to decrease heat/warming
96. Met gala 2070
97. History book about 2021
98. noise/smell cancelling device (future is smelly and loud)
99. LP  for musics from 2021
100. Something with newspaper from 2070 
     1. Handspun newspaper into yarn and weave?
     2. Newspaper print fashion

In the future, efficiency is the name of the game to keep corporations running and preventing social and environmental collapse. Everyone has their responsibilities, tenets and rules written out for them, even their tasks day to day. Some schedules change day to day and some people have their schedule tattooed to their arm.

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People live in controlled environments below or above ground. Indoor climate control is perfected such that it is always a comfy “room-temperature”. Indoor clothing becomes fashionable than functional, but also still kind of focused on work function. The semblance of clothing for weather is reserved to those that need to work outside these environments, and they are highly functional.

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Individuals and cultures try to preserve an idea of their life outside, either replicating environments underground and indoors, or wearing it on themselves, not unlike the tattoos they wear as mandated by the system. Some see it as a way to rebel against the system or to maintain a sense of individuality.

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I imagine that in 2070, the Earth will be too toxic and barren: it’s covered in waste with literal mountains of trash and the climate is to hostile for people to live on Earth. People will start deserting Earth and rely on space travel to colonize other habitable planets.

People will develop convenient for everyday wear spacesuits and live mostly in their community spaceships. Technology is a huge part of these societies, and with this technology they develop ways to adapt to extraterrestrial environments: grow and harvest crops, find water sources, build new cities etc.

With this concept I would like to make a quilt of the scene of people leaving the polluted earth in search of another habitable planet, or a scene of a spaceship community.

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1. Intertwined Coexistence of Man-made Structures with Nature

People build around and/or with nature, more so than building over it. For instance, with sea levels having risen significantly due to climate change, more coastal cities build homes, offices, parks, etc. on water. Previously predominantly grey cities incorporate much more greenery into their buildings and streets, like through vertical farming or through decorative means. Also, since so much of our services will have become virtual and gone online –such as malls or shopping malls– the physical spaces that used to provide their respective services are obsolete and abandoned. More of these spaces have been overtaken by nature. Mother nature is reclaiming her space by spreading itself and growing over buildings, statues, public transportation, cars, etc. Unfortunately, we still have a lot of non-recyclable trash (e.g. old computers, car tires, many plastics) that litter our spaces. But there is a sort of “acceptance” of these things that were useful once to let them be as they are now; not everything has to or even can be upcycled/recycled/modified in order to be useful again. Some things just exist and blatantly remain as waste in our environments, but we still don’t stop trying to find beauty hidden within them.

intertwining nature with man-made structures

cities on water

cities and jungles become one

flower growing in train

accepting waste as waste

2. Changes in How Consumers Buy & How Companies Sell & Manufacture

For far too long, consumers have been restrained by how companies design, manufacture, and sell their products. Companies for far too long had been designing to sell rather than to last or renew. Legally, companies are required to design with the disposal or a product in mind, design for it to be easily discarded, reused, recycled, or upcycled. The same goes for packaging. This empowers consumers to be able to choose what to do with the products they buy when they have served their useful purpose and need to be disposed of. Consumers are also empowered because more individuals can make their own products, such as furniture, houseware, clothing, etc. at home. Technology on 3D printing, growing plants and other organic, natural materials, and many other kinds of manufacturing methods has significantly progressed such that it has become available to the general public. Consumers now depend less on how big corporations design, sell, and manufacture their products. 

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Enola Gil La Rocca on Behance: algae-based material for yarn with weaving & loom

Enola Gil La Rocca on Behance: algae-based material for yarn

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at-home making of ceramic using old clam shells

3. 3D Printing, AR, and Growing Your Own Clothes

3D printing has already been a growing area in technology, but the most recent development is the commercialization of 3D printers for clothes. People can order clothing designs online rather than the physical garments themselves and make their clothes at home. Several more industries have incorporated 3D printing into their businesses, making this technology commercially available and accessible to a great majority of the population. 

Inevitably, more technology has become embedded into our lives, and one way it has been done in fashion is by making use of AR technology. Consumers can try on clothes through AR by looking through a screen how different garments would fit over their bodies without having to try the clothes on physically. This can be done in the comfort of one’s home, rendering physical shops even more obsolete but remain more as “the vintage way of shopping.” In addition to changes in how we shop for clothes, the garments themselves have codes that can be read to show animations and special effects through your phone screen as a way of merging the endless possibilities that the virtual world can provide and that the real world cannot. 

However, because of growing concerns of climate change, people have been incorporating more nature into their lives every day in any way possible. As technology improves and further permeates through our lives, growing our own clothes has become an equally large presence in our society. Through biocouture, for instance, people can more easily grow full pieces of clothing or parts of garments. 

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biocouture – clothes grown from bacteria

4. “Nostalgia” for the Past

Regardless of the remarkable progress made in technology thus far, there is still a sort of “nostalgia” for how things used to be several decades, or even centuries, ago. There is a “conflicting” dynamic between a desire to return to how things were in the past versus the fast-paced developing technologies of today (i.e. the future). Fashion shows in virtual reality worlds are juxtaposed with individuals returning to hand sewing, knitting, weaving, etc. their own garments. New clothing lines using the latest, newest, revolutionary, sustainable materials emerge while other smaller businesses sell handmade clothes made from upcycled, nonrenewable materials. 

Even our cities feel too new, too current, too modern, so there has been a growing trend where people start living further away from cities towards more rural locations. Since so much of our world is online and virtual, it is easier to stay remote while still being connected and “in the loop” with everything that is happening around the world. The high-stress of living in such fast-paced, densely populated cities has reached a point where people crave how spaces used to in the past: more green and natural, less grey and artificial. As such, living in more rural locations where there is less city noise, artificial lighting, pollution, etc. has become more desirable. 

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1. The climate crisis has evolved

Sea Level Rise

Wildfires

Cold Temperatures

New York is flooded and billions of dollars in real estate is now underwater in almost all major countries. Temperatures vary wildly across the globe, with many areas seeing incredibly harsh winters and scorching summers. As a result clothes must be incredibly adaptable to the wearer’s environment, with most clothes having snap-on attachments to layer up or down.

2. Money has been abolished

Money is Abolished

With the collapse of all major nation states, there is now no traditional currency to exchange for goods and services. In lieu, most goods are distributed by need and availability. To symbolically hold a semblance of payment, everybody exchanges shiny rocks and trinkets that they’ve found in the rubble.

3. New textiles can’t be produced

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With most aquifers drained, water is a precious commodity. Crop blights and diseases have spread among almost all natural fibers, and most people turn to discarded material to incorporate in their clothes.

4. New community traditions have emerged

Spliced pants

Spliced dress

Without nation states to pledge citizenship to, micro-communities have formed locally. Small neighborhoods and blocks band together and family structure is no more. Now much freer in movement and mind, information is exchanged at an alarming rate. To symbolize a connection between these groups, people cut off parts of their clothing and sew them onto the clothes of a close friend. Your fashion results from your relationships in a physical sense, and you can be identified by your appearance immediately.