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Welcome to a future where the intricate bond between soil fertility and reproductive health takes centre stage in our food systems. The SOILSKIN project aims to create renewable garments integrated with biotechnological components. Inspired by post-earth roamers forced to endure aridity, the wool-cotton blend textile used for the body of our dress is temperature-adaptable, sustainable to cultivate and acts as a carbon sink. The design features a 3D printed corset and medieval-style gorget with a degradé colouring, representing desiccation cracks due to global warming. This armour reflects UV rays but also represents the aestheticization of climate change in dystopian narratives. Our hardware involves biosensing shoes activated by a movement that, upon detection of infertile soil, will trigger the inflation of a silicone waistband in a maternal fashion. The monitoring of the soil and impact assessment is carried out by stake sensors placed in the shoe. Using a flexible electronic biomaterial casing, sensors run from the stocking up to a stomach piece with air pockets that inflate a mechanism based on a numerical range within each parameter measuring (pH, light level, soil temperature, humidity and air temperature). The hands-on ritual of ripping and immersing the fabric will stimulate ecological restoration and revive humanity’s empathy for the planet’s thirst.
