HEAL YOURSELF
HEAL THE WORLD
Breatharianism is the belief that people have the ability to live without consuming food or water, by solely living off of light, air and energy, something known as Prana. Prana is believed to be the sun that imparts light and life within every single body. Taking these beliefs, we fabricated an environment for this particular group and designed tools and products that would be used.
For this project, we had to examine the role of ideas, beliefs and hopes in the construction of the world around us by focusing on a particular group of people with a different view or belief system. The chosen group and belief for this project is Breatharianism.
The community we fabricated, started off with the single most important central idea, the breath. We took the notion of a breath and surrounded cultural elements such as rituals, architecture, and a form of identification based on the first breath of a breatharian and the last breath. Just from the symbolism and significance of the first and last breath, it creates a bond within the community as it serves a large part of who they are as a community. Everyone captures their first breath to create an identity within the community, while the last breath is a ritual of giving back to the community.
