Speculative Design, 2023
Non Commercial Project
The project video incorporates AI-generated content

GhostWeave is a speculative design envisioning a future dominated by digital totalitarianism and extreme surveillance. It explores the potential consequences of this reality, where personal privacy is under threat. In response, GhostWeave introduces innovative solutions: 'CryptaSphere Haven,' providing trace-free internet access, and 'GuardianMask,' protecting facial bio-information. This speculative design serves as a provocation, urging society to contemplate the implications of unchecked surveillance and offering tangible solutions to safeguard individual liberties in the digital era.

Digital surveillance technology is maturing and penetrating into the lives of individuals, facilitating their lives while also being controlled by Internet companies, creating a potentially dominant digital totalitarianism in a low-cost manner. Gradually, people are being "tamed" by surveillance, individual choices are being limited and influenced, private content is being exposed and pried into, and the right to freedom is being challenged.

Digital nomads in various regions have formed a
personal privacy organisation called "GhostWeave" to promote the "CryptaSphere Haven" product. Using independent signal transmission technology to safeguard the privacy of users, it creates a small space that blocks any signals from the outside world, thus blocking surveillance, and provides a short-term sanctuary for those who need it.