Istituto Marangoni Milan
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Apparel / Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Textiles
My location: Milan, Italy
First Name: Anežka
Last Name: Nováčková
University / College: Istituto Marangoni Milan
Course / Program: Fashion Design (3 Years)
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Apparel / Textiles - Print/Embroidery / Textiles
My Location: Milan, Italy
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This project is inspired by an artistic study into a hypothetical artificial planet made up of human bodies by Julijonas Urbanos, which he presented at the 17th Venice architecture Biannale. In project Planet of People, Urbonas questions the impact of colonizing of space, and he comes with the idea of making our own planet from ourself, instead of trashing other planets without asking them. In this way we would be more sensitive to how we care about such environment. Through its suspending visitors through space and its creation of a fictional planet, the exhibition aims to interrogate issues of space colonialism and sustainability. In this project, he applies cosmic imagination and speculative thinking to engineer aplanet made of human beings. Assembling virtual 3D scans of visitors’ bodies, itexplores how this planet could look and its interaction with the cosmos. It questionsthe meaning of human life on a planet where our bodies are just the building material. It is believed that bodies would be moving randomly according to Brownian motion until their weak gravities make them assemble. Using this as a starting point, collection is influenced by artificial intelligence, space age, grunge and hip-hop´s lifestyle in Bronx in New York city in 60s. Having in mind pollution we are causing I am reusing waste fabric from wholesalers and designers. In order to give them new life I used them for different manipulations. I got inspired by grunge for it randomness of mix and match of garment, and about its questioning of status quo, identity and not belonging. For this reason collection is taking inspiration as well from hip hop culture in 60s, from the moment when hip hop could be found in the parks of the Bronx with sound systems blasting out in protest against the unjust treatment that the minorities were facing. Colors are inspired by AI artist Refik Anadol and his artworks of data-driven machine learning algorithms that create abstract, dream-like environments. And collection´s colors are supposed to represent vivid personalities of people which are creating our planet of people