Birds of Prey: What the Future Leaves Behind

Abstract

This thesis investigates biotechnology research focusing on military applications that transform living organisms and their impact on future ecosystems. Through speculative fiction, my work proposes a holistic view of the future combining dark speculative design and paleontology methodology. Traveling through a speculative time, I was able to assume many roles to explore the different points of view related to the story; a paleontologist, a scientist, a naturalist, a museum conservator, a hybrid object/species, a fossil or a grain of sand. My work includes the humorous aspect in the depiction of dark design elements that opens the possibility to reflect on serious subjects. Proposing a multispectral speculative world, this work allowed me to expand my practice with new media that bring legitimacy of the work into the scientific world.