Are you ready for the end of the world? Well, you better be. If you are not, we got you sorted. This is the set of tools we, Luigi Console and I as Mighty_Kongbot, designed for the #3D #Additivist #Cookbook project by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke and it was presented at the Transmediale in Berlin in 2017. There is a trend about dystopia, news websites love it, fear triggers clicks, ads revenues are booming. We wanted to speculate on this trend and designed a solution for some of the worst #Anthropocene disasters that could bring humanity to an end because lets be clear, save the planet is a myth, we got to save our own skin. When we designed this set the alt-right was rising, Trump was running for presidency, terrorists attacking the quite western populations, vulcanos were erupting, earthquakes were shaking the Earth, a meteorite, or some space debrids and garbage, could crash on our head anytime soon. Of course, this is dystopic #speculativedesign for #3Dprinting project, do not try this at home, it won't work. The original set included three more tools. An Anti Floods Breathing Straw so that you can still breath while the Earth is floaded, Post Apocalypse Air Jar to bring some fresh pre-apocalypse air with you and Post Anthroapocalypse Seed Container so that you can start life on Earth once the end of the world is all over.
The Mighty Kongbot Inc. Set for surviving the Anthropocene presented here is a kit made of 3 tools which can help you survive apocalyptic scenarios by providing you with easy to home 3D print utensils that can be very handy and help you to save your own life and the lives of those dear to you, the love of your life, your family. Your fellow humans are affecting your life in a way that there will not be return unless you take action. The Solar System is disintegrating, the Earth is drying out and the poles are melting, human mind is poisoned as much as the water they drink, the food they eat, the air they breathe, the soil they work and walk. Make up your mind quickly, time is running out.
Mighty Kongbot The Mighty Kongbot is a being with the attitude of a gorilla and the intelligence of a robot, made by humans and shaped by media. Mighty Kongbot is kept alive by Luigi Console & Domenico Barra. mightykongbot.tumblr.com/
about saving the planet. thoughts.
Those who destroy the world frighten me, but even those who want to save it scare me too. That is, saving the world is a Western concept of omnipotence. SAVE THE PLANET. As if the fate of this infinite, or rather exhausted system, depends exclusively on us, the most fragile and vulnerable species of all, but the most vain. Perhaps, if we work hard, we can save our own self. Ours as I save mine and you save yours, saving humanity is not a human thing. The problem, I believe, is this. The humanity we always advocate for, especially here on social media message boards is an abstract concept. The humanity we are dealing with is the one exclusively belonging to our community of people, often of people with our own interests, so in the end, for one reason or another, it ends badly, and history teaches us. We go to the demonstrations in citie's sqaures shouting SAVE THE PLANET and we hug each others but then if we are neighbors and we cross path we probably do not even say hello. In the crowd we are all the same, but on our door steps the relationship is one to one and most likely we do not tollerate each others because some futile reasons. The public square gatherings serve to create "awareness" but then you have to make the revolution in your home, in your own life. Those who want to SAVE THE PLANET have lost touch with reality and with themselves as well as those who destroy it. Look at Chernobyl, the masterpiece of the failure of the human being, the anthroapocalypse. Who can no longer return to that piece of land is human beings, animals, plants and billions of microorganisms are there, they live despite us. If the human being suddenly disappears, do you think polar bears take it badly? So if we really want to save humanity we must save our pale ass first, and this is the most difficult mission, saving yourself from yourself. How? I do not know but maybe paying attention to the details of our lifestyle and correct those that are unsustainable and polluting, do some exercises to limit the damages of our vanity, prepare oneself for dialogues, empathy, sacrifice some comforts, perhaps they could be a small and modest but honest beginning towards saving our life from our own damages. Also, give up alibis, it's also your fault and not just someone else if things are going bad.