(Archive) Underneath Another Moon

A speculative history holds a mirror to Western modernity

This project was part of DDW 2020

Deisgned objects — © photo by Femke Reijerman

This project is part of: Graduation Show - Contextual Design

The project proposes a “what if” scenario. What if there was a Third Opium War between China and Great Britain in 1880? And what if this time, China prevailed and set up concession districts in key cities around the world? How would “modernity” be different?

The modernity we live now is the consequence of a series of historical human conflicts, rather than developments made by taking rational and positive decisions.
This can be illustrated if you look into the shifting period in history, the colonial era

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