GEN+, A Magazine About Future Scenarios for Fashion and Identity

  • Julia van der Veen

As graduation project I created a concept for a magazine that explores possible futures for fashion and identity, the dummy issue deals with the scenario 'what if we could re-design the human body'.

If we become able to redesign the human body, by implementing synthetic parts, or manipulate genes and biological structures, it’s been said that humans become more and more like machines. Whereas we are designing machines that look just like humans. This way, boundaries between real and artificial seem to evanesce.

The first issue of GEN+ focusses on this matter by looking at the physicality of the body. It zooms in on the real and artficial skins and body parts. This way is been questioned what it actually means to be human, whenever we consider something as human, and how far these perceptions can be stretched.

Side note: This is a fictional school project, Scenario Magazine is not the real client and publisher of this magazine. Also it is a dummy magazine with as purpose to explain the concept, therefore I do not own the copyright of all images.