00:01It's 2043, and your clothing is alive.
00:08The material is an alternative cloth.
00:13The material can be used to adorn the body.
00:18The material can intimately form to the wearer,
00:21unlike other forms of traditional clothing.
00:26Bacteria respond to your body, reacting to heat and sweat,
00:31while clothing you.
00:33Symbiosis.
00:36Symbiosis.
00:43Artist Ali Schnackschneider explores alternative uses
00:48for grown biological materials
00:50through imagining future applications of biotechnology,
00:54from speculative scenarios to actual materials.
00:59But why?
01:00The environmental cost of clothing production is staggering.
01:04It takes 1,800 gallons of water to grow cotton for one pair of jeans,
01:10and 2,900 gallons to produce one finished, dyed pair.
01:1426 million tons of textile waste is generated every year in China alone.
01:21Exploring sustainable alternatives is not a utopian dream, but a necessity.
01:29The symbiotic culture of microbes fermented over time
01:33can produce sheets of material, bacterial cellulose.
01:40Mycelium, the vegetable body of fungi, is grown to form shoes.
01:47These materials are all around us, full of potential.
01:53Organisms could become part of the cloth that we wear,
01:57moving away from a cycle of waste,
02:00the degradation of our resources and the environment.
02:04Hands-on research and speculation leads to solutions.
