As humans face the existential threat of a warming climate that promises natural disasters and extreme living conditions;  politicians, engineers and scientists are scrambling to create infrastructure to mitigate impending chaos. For centuries humans have settled in and adapted to vastly different ecologies and landscapes. In the wake of rising global temperatures, however, large populations of climate refugees will have to quickly adapt to unfamiliar terrain and coexist in urban areas already bursting at the seams. Despite rapidly developing technology and medicine, it is unclear if the human species can survive this transition as is.

On the flip side - the world of entertainment and science-fiction has been dreaming up alternate realities of augmented cyber-humans and cross-species superheroes for decades. In this studio, students will channel that creativity while responding to the consequences of climate change by designing “cyborg” body extensions to push the limits of human evolution.