IPSITA RAJAK
Mr. Saurabh Srivastava
ipsita_r@nid.edu
This project offers a concise speculative inquiry into the evolving relationships among food, technology, and culture. Drawing on the metaphor of tangled nylon threads being reknit into new forms, this work is framed as a process of curiosity-driven “re-wilding” and reflective pause. Through a series of tactile prototypes and narrative vignettes, the project probes futures defined by ecological reciprocity rather than extractive commodity exchange. It imagines domestic myco-food-growing devices that harness fungal networks for soil remediation, wearable algal patches for real-time nutrition, and olfactory-modulation devices that refame taste as a means of ecological solidarity. Adopting a temporal horizon of 2040 to 2090, the project deliberately steps beyond current capitalist structures to imagine how prosperity might be redefined by the mutual flourishing of humans and non-humans. These evocative artifacts invite critical reflection on a future where soil stewardship and “economies of gratitude” finally supplant contemporary extractive logics.