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私はイルカを産みたい…
(2011-2013) 映像、立体、ダイアグラム、写真
人間は遺伝子を次世代に渡す方法として子供たちを育てるように遺伝的に仕向けられていますが、人口過剰と緊張した地球環境のために最適な状況で子供を育てることはより難しくなっています。
このプロジェクトは、潜在的食物不足とほぼ70億人の人口の中、これ以上人間を増やすのではなく、絶滅の危機にある種（例えばサメ、マグロ、イルカ等）を代理出産することを提案しています。
子供を産みたいという欲求と美味しいものが食べたいという欲求を満たす為に、食べ物として動物を出産してみてはどうか？という議論を提示し、そして如何に可能にするかという方法も示します。
Humans are genetically predisposed to raise children as a way of passing on their genes to the next generation. For some, the struggle to raise a child in decent conditions is becoming harder due to gross overpopulation and an increasingly strained global environment.This project approaches the problem of human reproduction in an age of overcrowding, overdevelopment and environmental crisis. With potential food shortages and a population of nearly seven billion people, would a woman consider incubating and giving birth to an endangered species such as a shark, tuna or dolphin? This project introduces the argument for giving birth to our food to satisfy our demands for nutrition and childbirth, and discusses some of the technical details of how this might be possible.
Would raising this animal as a child change its value so drastically that we would be unable to consume it because it would be imbued with the love of motherhood? The Maui’s dolphin has been chosen as the ideal ‘baby’ for this piece. It is one of the world’s rarest and smallest dolphins, classified critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation’s Red List of Threatened Species (version 2.3) because of the side effects of fishing activity by humans, its size (which closely matches the size of a human baby), and its high intelligence level and communication abilities.
I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin… imagines a point in the future, where humans will help this species by the advanced technology of synthetic biology. A ‘dolp-human placenta’ that allows a human female to deliver a dolphin is created, and thus humans can become a surrogate mother to endangered species. Furthermore, gourmets would be able to enjoy the luxury of eating a rare animal: an animal made by their own body, raising questions of the ownership of rare animal life, and life itself.
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通常’免疫’は自己か否かが問題で、自分以外の細胞が体内に侵入すると免疫によって攻撃します。しかし胎盤の細胞は’人間か否か’が線引きとなっているが故に代理出産という完璧な他者さえも体内に保育する事が可能です。ドルヒューマンプラセンタでは更にこの免疫寛容を’ほ乳類か、否か？’に拡張させる事を想定しています。
人間の胎盤と異なり、ドルヒューマンプラセンタは人間の抗体を通しません、通常のイルカの胎盤も免疫システムを母親から通さず、そのかわり出産直後、初乳という抗体が多量に含まれた乳を摂取することにより母親から免疫システムを受け取る。このドルヒューマンプラセンタで出産されたイルカの場合は抗体と栄養素等を合成された初乳を出産直後に与えます。
Synthetic Dolp-human PlacentaTo make it possible for a human mother to deliver a dolphin from her womb, there is a need to synthesise ‘The Dolp-human Placenta’. The usual human placenta interacts to pass from mother to baby oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, hormones, antibodies (Immunoglobulin Gamma, IgG) and so on. The Dolp-human placenta blocks the delivery of IgG to the baby. The placenta originates from the baby’s side, which in this case is a dolphin, and not from the human side. This avoids the ethical and legal difficulties associated with reproductive research involving human eggs. The decidua is formed by implantation of the egg. Usually, foreign cells in the body (for example from other individuals) are attacked by the immune system, but inside the decidua they are tolerated. However, even though the decidua accepts cells from other individuals, non-human cells would still be attacked. In the dolp-human placenta case, it has been modified to distinguish mammal from non-mammal cells, making it even more tolerant.
Colostrum or first milk The Dolp-human placenta blocks the delivery of human IgG to the dolphin baby. Usually the Dolphin placenta does not pass immunity from the mother. Instead it is passed by the ‘first milk’, which contains high levels of several antibodies. The human mother needs to feed synthesised first milk to the baby immediately after the delivery.
協力＆感謝
イルカロボット：林正道
女優：藤乃ゆりあ
カメラ：村上ヒロミツ
Special ThanksDolphin Robot : Masamichi Hayashi
Actress : Yuria Fujino
Camera : Hiromitsu Murakami
Actress : Yuria Fujino
Camera : Hiromitsu Murakami
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This project is Professional Speculative Runner Up for the Core77 2014 Design Awards!
Jury Comments:
This project represents the power of speculative design to identify problems and intensify them through a well thought and delivered scenario. The project touches on the relationship of humans with other non-human animals. It starting point is already of that of otherness, being asked from a non-western, non-male perspective. The questionable idea of giving birth to a non-human engendered animal as a way to deal with human over population and non-human animal extinction is compounded with the proposition of actually eating that very same offspring. The project is well researched and does present an integrating research trajectory that without this speculative design intervention that arguably would never be explored.
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審査員のコメント：
このプロジェクトはスペキュラティブデザインの持つ力を表している、良く練られた考えとシナリオによって問題を特定し強化している。このプロジェクは人間とその他ー人間以外の動物との関係性に触れている。そのスタートポイントはすでに異質で、質問は非西洋的で、非男性的な視点からきている。その疑問に溢れたアイデアは人間でない絶滅危惧種の動物を人口過多という問題のとりくみに統合し、産んだ同じ子孫を食べるという提案している。
このプロジェクトはよく研究されており、そしてスペキュラティヴデザインという介入なしには間違いなく探求されることのなかったであろう統合された研究の軌道をよく表している。
