The Tummy Tuck | Future-unknown Project

The tummy tuck

The project focuses on a report that says more than 2 billion people worldwide are affected by obesity, with the fastest increase in childhood obesity and a steady rise in global obesity rates. On the other hand, we start with the weak signal that pre-meal rituals are conducive to weight loss, consider the subtle changes in crowd awareness and social environment in the process of social development, and explore how to curb the spread of obesity through psychological constraint induction.

Inspired from the concept of religious system of abstinence, we imagine, after 20 years of the social environment of highly obesity, realize the obesity problem is due to loss of appetite and difficult to resist the instinct of people is difficult to lose weight gradually formed a group, they in the case of self-discipline attempt failed, to seek the metaphysical way of psychological comfort, the entire abdomen surgery sectarian shaped slowly, they have a rigorous before meals meal before the ceremony, under the constraint of the church, a group of people believe that the discipline, strictly comply with the meal before the ceremony is the only road to health, is the biggest redemption for his insatiable appetite. However, the predinner ceremony and belief system can effectively control the intake of food. A steady stream of people see that people entering the sect gradually become thinner, which adds more mystery and influence to the sect.

When we developed this whole system, we explored a series of access points for possible Christian storylines. For example, the Elizabethan circle worn at dinner symbolizes the imprisonment of desire and conflicts with current social common sense, forming a point that stimulates the traditional cognition of the audience. We avoid surrealism in physical design and photography. It's important to maintain and emphasize the sense of unreality, the illusion that the audience is constantly aware of the concept, not the product. Returning to the whale-only sect itself, we assume that its members are a group of idealists, a group with a complex relationship to the mainstream society, not just an isolated fanatic group. As a speculative design project, we set the location of the scene in the future, like the location of the vegetarian in the present society, unique and surprising, but when the crowd put such a scene in the moment, will and contemporary liberalism and social ethical conflicts, we hope that such a conflict can inspire viewers reflection and debate, develop their own for a possible future thinking.