Antidepressant-laden cereals, energy ballots, artificial vegetables and vintage bottled water – these are the products of the future that visitors can taste, touch and experience when they walk into a dystopian world at Monash University’s Open Day this Sunday. Click here to view images of some of the products. The purpose-built installation at the University’s Clayton campus features up to 16 interactive scenes – where visitors can walk through and interact with a range of fictitious products, services and digital experiences that may shape how we live in the future. It’s part of Monash University’s “Change it‘ campaign. This bold new activation, a ‘Future Without Change‘, shows what life could be like if we continue to adapt to the world’s problems rather than solve them. It provokes audiences to consider the consequences of inaction on issues like global warming, violence against women, food security, human rights violation, the spread of superbugs and cyber-crime. Each product represents a problem at crisis point and engages the audience to
Walk into a dystopian future at Monash Open Day
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