THE CONCEPT
For millennia, humans have looked at the stars for guidance. From navigating vast oceans to tracking the changing seasons, these celestial bodies have served as a constant source of orientation. Now, imagine the night sky as seen from a different perspective – the Moon.
The Navigation Future project explores this concept. It takes inspiration from the way ships appear as bright points of light on satellite radar images, like constellations in a dark sea. In areas with heavy traffic, these “constellations” become intricate and costantly changing.
Questions arise: what navigational cues may future lunar inhabitants draw from such shifting constellations? As humanity extends its reach to celestial bodies like the Moon, how will our understanding of navigation evolve?
The exhibit showcased in the Food Design Stories Moon Garden area at Superstudio embodies these questions.
It highlights the mutual gaze between Earth and its lunar satellite. Through this relationship a fabric takes shape, capturing the observed constellations and transforming them into a tangible reality.
The constellations are visible on the garments as digital bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional prints.
A COLLABORATIVE VISION
This project is a collaboration between earthncycle and the European Space Agency (ESA). It utilizes data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, specifically focusing on the Singapore Strait – a vital global shipping lane.
MORE ABOUT THE GARMENTS
The outfit purposefully includes garments of different weight, apt for different seasons (in their traditional sense).
Fabrics used for the swimsuit, mesh turtleneck and coat are made of recycled PET and digitally printed in the Netherlands.
The shorts are made of hemp digitally printed in the Netherlands.
The coat padding is made of recycled cashmere fibres bonded together through a thermal process with Ingeo – a high performing biopolymer made in USA. Ingeo is the result of a hi-tech process that converts atmospheric carbon feedstock into this amazing biopolymer.
The removable waterproof coat extensions are made of recycled nylon with a coating on fabric, which uses by-products from marble processing industries to colour the fabric and make it waterproof, windproof, and high resistant (MARM/MORE ®).
The 3D print, made in Rome, uses PLA (polylactic acid) filament, a bioplastic material derived froIf ym renewable sources.
All tailoring is made in the Rome area.
If you are in Milan during the DESIGN WEEK and would like to see and try the garment in person, feel free to contact us via email (info@earthncycle.it), social media (Instagram: @earthncycle) or WhatsApp (+39 320 043 6686).
MORE ABOUT THE SUPERSTUDIO MOON GARDEN EXHIBIT PIECE
The piece consists of two laser-engraved plexiglass mirrors, each displaying the surface of the Moon and the Earth’s surface in the Singapore Strait area, respectively.
The fabric is a mesh made of 90% recycled polyester (rPET) with 10% elastane (EL), digitally printed in the Netherlands. The fabric piece is crossed by threads of local silk produced in Lazio.
MORE ABOUT ESA AND THE DATA
The Sentinels are a family of Earth observation satellites developed by ESA for the operational needs of the Copernicus cooperation programme between the European Commission and the European Space Agency. Copernicus provides accurate, timely and easily accessible information to improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.
Sentinel-1 is a radar imagery satellite which provides an all-weather, day-and-night supply of images of Earth’s surface.