tobias revell: 88.7

‘88.7’ by tobias revell the arktika is an ex-soviet icebreaker recomissioned to act as a trading post in the arctic circle.

british interaction designer tobias revell has investigated a larger study into the history and future of socio-economic power. through his project ‘88.7’, the visualization of a scenario 50 years in the future is foreshadowed, where financial deregulation and the gradual undermining of nation-state power have led to the proliferation of global experiments in finance, the collapse of national economies, hyper-libertarian ideals and even physical deformity. ‘88.7’ is presented as a series of objects that represent various events triggered aboard and around the arktika – an ex-soviet icebreaker recommissioned to act as a mobile trading base circumnavigating the world at the arctic circle in as little as twenty-four hours. the artifacts present an insight into the world that the arktika inhabits. 

this plan shows how the arktika was entirely refitted with two trading floors, server space, new communication technology, a fusion reactor and a genetics lab.

these charts show the activity of the arktika and could be used to test its efficiency.

the intensity of trade led to the kind of neurochemical changes noted in gambling addicts. as pressure increased these changes manifested  themselves as physical deformation that could be used like tree-rings to gauge a traders performance.

in north korea, media companies from japan and the neighbouring south construct a vast 2.5km stadium for the airing of mass games featuring almost  1.8 million north koreans as a response to the individualistic and competitive lifestyle of the world 

a 4.5m timeline details the events through two thousand years of history that led to the creation of the arktika

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