Farewell, Fantastic Earth? – Design of virtual 3D environments, avatars and fashion

New Space – Since the early 2000s, space travel has been increasingly privatized and commercialized. At the center of this are multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk. Space X advertises their planned colonies on Mars with the slogan “Making life multi-planetary.”¹ An exit strategy for the super-rich to avoid problems like the climate crisis or overly powerful governments on Earth?² Farewell, Fantastic Earth!

In art, there also seems to be a new wave of space fascination, artists like Tom Sachs, or this year‘s Milan Triennale titled “Unknown Unknowns” deal with extraterrestrial utopias and dystopias. Farewell, Fantastic Earth?

In the project “Farewell, Fantastic Earth?”, a cooperation project between the departments of fashion design and visual communication, students develop extraterrestrial utopias and dystopias that reflect this New Space Age. With the help of Unity3D and Clo3D, students from the departments of fashion design and visual communication design virtual 3D environments, avatars, and fashion in small teams and present them animated in short films. The project is led by the two +dimensions members Madeleine Madej and Julian Netzer.