PROJECT STAINED
Set in the dystopian future of 2093 when personal information is the new currency as money had lost all its value, a new initiative ‘Project Stained’ is established to restore stability to the economic market and society. In order to fund this new society, the government replaces the previous tax system and introduces a new method of tax payment. One where it requires tax collectors to directly withdraw payment from each individual. For this exchange to happen, there needs to be a physical space for it. My design proposal speculated what this space would be; ultimately leading to creating the National Honorarium. Here, attending at their given appointment, the public are individually questioned about their annual activities which is collected and stored by the government - later to be traded with other countries.
This project questions whether reflective materiality could manipulate the users experience and whether structural hierarchy ensured secrecy. Speculating what would happen to society when it was no longer fuelled by a capitalist system.