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Developed as a collaborative project by four designers, Post-Taming Society imagines a timeline extending to 2075, when the Anthropocene gives way to the Symbiocene. Rather than centring human dominance, the work proposes a planetary system rooted in interspecies agency, ecological balance, and a post-growth well-being economy. Set against a history of ecological collapse, AI saturation, and ideological conflict between eco-fascist preservation and industrial expansion, the project positions the “Balancists” as a mediating force. In this speculative future, artificial intelligence no longer seeks to replace human labour. Instead, it functions as an interpreter of non-human signals, translating plant, animal, and microbial communication into shared decision-making frameworks. Agency is redistributed across species. At the centre of this world stands LUCA, named after the Last Universal Common Ancestor, a young scientist from the Balancists community. Her generation undergoes bio-sensory activation practices during education, awakening dormant genetic commonalities shared across species. Through this embodied awareness, perception expands beyond the human-centred sensorium. LUCA’s research focuses on soil memory. Through data-driven temporal analysis, a form of “time travel through knowledge”, she identifies residual genetic traces of extinct or displaced plant species embedded within the earth. By recovering these codes, she works to restore balanced, site-specific ecologies and counteract invasive dominance. The project frames fashion not as seasonal production, but as a narrative interface between body, biosphere, and data. LUCA’s presence becomes a speculative embodiment of coexistence, where science, memory, and ecology converge in the search for planetary equilibrium.

The Labaratory of the Merge: A study of Plant Experiencing Human