Hikes in the Arctic Circle made me pay more attention to the relationship and interaction between organisms and the environment. I feel like a local that I am connected to the land and creatures beneath my feet, as if everything around me is tightly connected in a vast ecosystem. This rethinking helped me approach the planet with more humility and inspired me to think about my responsibility for life and climate change.

In recent years, sustainable design is increasingly being realized, however, such as the use of biomaterials in the apparel industry in part, the IPCC report shows that it does not prevent global warming. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the relationship between humans, clothing, and the environment from the perspective of ecological cycle. Clothing can be seen as a thin layer of connection between humans and the environment, through which human and non-human forces meet and connect. A thin membrane like gut parka of project, be breathing, alive, like some biomaterials that degrade over time, or digitized to simulate the perfect air bag structure in nature. The polar people have found the meaning of symbiosis, such as the thermal aerodynamics of fur in parkas. Therefore, I try to construct a posthumanism position where the Other is not only the constituted human self, external and non-human forces, but also the whole environment, the Earth, including air, rain and even viruses. Thinking about how clothing allows us to coexist with these small and large systems? While the concept is still digital, in polar contexts, human fragility is revealed through encounters with extreme experiences that not only help reshape the way humans exist but can also strengthen our sense of care and connection of beings other than human beings, free from the illusion of own grandeur.

                                                                                     6.20.2022