The project, titled "LIFE IN 2150," combines artistic installations made of beeswax, ceramics, and marine plastic waste with interactive QR codes, creating a multisensory experience that blends scientific data and science fiction. Visitors engage in a game scenario involving cryptography, real-time role-playing, and web design, prompting reflections on our environmental impact. The exhibition invites contemplation of our relationship with the planet through diverse materials, uniting them with beeswax, and questioning our place in a changing world.
"VIE EN 2150" begins in a future that seems distant and inaccessible, much like the concept of the "future" itself—abstract, fictional, yet grounded in reality. The story of "VIE EN 2150" is reminiscent of many science fiction novels, relying on science and technology to envision a possible future world while drawing inspiration from past history and current social conditions. The game's narrative revolves around pressing environmental issues such as global warming, ocean acidification, soil salinization, algae proliferation (eutrophication), and the submersion of cities. It integrates cryptographic methods for encoding and decoding information, real-time role-playing, and web structure.
Vie en 2150 Story
In 2150, due to global warming, intensified glacier melting causes a constant rise in sea levels, frequent flooding, and many cities are already submerged.
The city of MDAO was once located in a bay area, surrounded by the ocean and steep mountains. With the city constantly sinking, rising groundwater levels and softening soil, buildings and infrastructure are often flooded and damaged, and many places have fallen into a state of disrepair and desolation.
The city's inhabitants are forced to live and work in water. This semi-terrestrial, semi-aquatic living environment threatens their health, as the quality of water and air is severely polluted. They are compelled to use filters combining algae fibers and bacterial algae chips, protective suits, and accessories to obtain fresh air and provisions.
Although the government and businesses continue to implement various measures to address the situation, such as developing farmland irrigated by seawater, floating farms, mobile residential areas adjustable to water levels, diversifying transportation methods (land, sea, and air) to reduce ground pressure, using brainwashing-style advertisement systems to disseminate environmental protection information, and efficient waste treatment and energy production systems, most of these measures are ineffective and even cause additional problems.
Recently, the city of MDAO has experienced several strange incidents: many buildings near the maritime zones collapse and sink at an increasingly rapid rate, sewer systems are blocked, and the base water level continuously rises, with marine pollution indicators becoming alarmingly high...
An anonymous letter was separately sent to the MDAO-IA security and investigation departments and MDAO-BI. MDAO-IA is an agency responsible for providing national security information; MDAO-BI is an investigation bureau tasked with policing and intelligence functions, protecting the nation against terrorism, cyber-attacks, foreign intelligence, and espionage activities.
The letter reveals that a marine terrorist attack caused by a new strain of algae bacteria is imminent, potentially leading to the city's complete submersion and devastating marine pollution...
