Published: May 7, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 618 East, 9th Street, #FRNT 1, New York, NY 10009, United States
As microplastic pollution intensifies, mounting evidence points to its serious risk to our reproductive health. What would happen if the most dire predictions came true, and microplastics suddenly and irreversibly made human procreation impossible?
In What Comes After No One? Future Artifacts for a Final Generation, five emerging designers explore a world where humanity faces its inevitable end. The featured works use art, design, creative technology, and speculative fiction to probe the aesthetic, material, psychological, and emotional consequences of living in the shadow of extinction. Shown together, they ask audiences to reflect on what it means to design for a world where adaptation feels both urgent and futile, and where human ingenuity must contend with approaching obsolescence.
Presented by Through Studio, the special two-day event will run May 15-16 at Studio Anselm Dastner (618 E 9th St. FRNT 1, New York, NY 10009). It marks the NYCxDESIGN Festival debut for the participating artists and designers, whose backgrounds include fine art, spatial design, engineering, data science, graphic, and speculative design. All five are recent graduates of the Design and Technology MFA program at Parsons School of Design.
Time: 5:00-10:00 pm EST
Free!
Detailed information and discussion of the event.