SURVIVAL GUIDE NEW YORK CITY POST CIVILIZATION
“There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools, singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.� - There Will Come Soft Rains, Sara Teasdale
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INITIAL CONCEPT
Utilize living plants or fungi as material to create a typeface, allowing the organic forms to break the rigid parameters of standardized type, and give them ability to create unconventional forms of communication.
INITIAL CONCEPT
RESEARCH (AGAIN)
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DILEMMA
Humans have built a system of operating and maintaining their civilizations that depends heavily on the suppression or manipulation of the natural environment for human use. Habitat destruction is common for harvesting natural resources or urbanization but damages our ecosystem by displacing or destroying the organisms that lived there before. If we are unable to prevent the collapse of the society that has for centuries maintained this system, how can the new modern New Yorker survive the new feral landscape of the city?
PROPOSAL
This book aims to prepare the jaded urbanite for living without society’s conveniences by giving them the tools and skills to live off the land, through the narrative of the ecological landscape and increasingly complex biodiversity of a city without people.
THEMES
Survivalist Theory Ecological Apocalypse Biological Decay Zero-Impact Technology Return to Nature
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
To supply the skills and tools necessary to survive after the collapse of civilization in New York City. Secondary Objectives: To educate about the ecosystem of the New York Bay and discuss ways that ecological design can be integrated into redeveloping society.
FINAL PUBLICATION
Print Book + Survival Kit Free Online Version (ePub) Free PDF Printable Version
DESIGN INSPIRATION
PROTOTYPE ONE
PROTOTYPE ONE
PROTOTYPE TWO
Canteen First Aid Kit Compass Snare Wire Rope Pencil Knife Notebook Tarp Blanket Rucksack
SURVIVAL KIT
Kit includes the basic tools for survival. Resources are scarce, and while some of them can be made by hand if the originals are lost or broken, many are artifacts of a collapsed civilzation. So, don’t lose anything.
PROTOTYPE TWO SURVIVAL KIT
Kit includes the basic tools for survival. Resources are scarce, and while some of them can be made by hand if the originals are lost or broken, many are artifacts of a collapsed civilzation. So, don’t lose anything.
Pencil Knife First Aid Kit
Snare Wire Notebook
Rucksack
Rope
Compass
Canteen
Tarp
Blanket