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mock wild

Year

2025 - Now

Mock wild

with CGG

MOCK WILD: EGYPT (ver. 1.0) uses speculative images, videos, and recipes to imagine, taste & debate hybrid landscapes and cuisines. Within Egypt there are currently various approaches—at different scales and stages—for transitioning desert into agricultural land.

MOCK WILD: EGYPT imagines a near future where disparate greening projects, historic land-use and ecological farming approaches overlap, forming layered landscapes of intensive human and non-human activity. This first version of the project uses databases of taste and data-driven dreaming to map, cook and depict a near-future regional food system that consists of hybrid approaches to food sovereignty and land use.

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Each YPCS object offers a tactile, personal experience of climate-conscious design. They are physical reminders that sustainability can be intimate, emotional—and beautiful.

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This mussel-based PLA was used to produce a series of compact, sculptural objects—small containers for juwellery—designed with generative algorithms that mimic organic forms. The digital models were developed using AI-driven generative tools, which allowed us to experiment with forms that referenced natural growth patterns—spires, folds, cavities—that resonate with the mussels’ own geometry. 

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Each piece we printed is made from a custom 3D-printable material developed during our research into sustainable aquaculture. Mussels naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the ocean and store it in their calcium-rich shells. When discarded after consumption, this carbon is typically re-released into the environment. But if reclaimed, these shells can act as long-term carbon storage.

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YPCS invites us to rethink the lifespan of everyday objects. 

In a world where consumption is constant and waste is invisible, this project asks: what if our belongings didn’t just store memories, but stored carbon too?

technical facts

  • Team: Nataly Khadziakova & Katya Bryskina

  • Material: Francofil mussel PLA

  • Object type: Small storage pieces, home artifacts

  • Carbon role: Each object passively stores CO₂ captured by mussels during their growth

in progress

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