Nominated project for the Förderpreis Design Award
Coming soon…
In an era marked by globalisation and migration, the status quo of integration policies is being increasingly questioned. Concepts like nationality and laws regarding citizenship rights are changing constantly, affecting people’s right to move, to live and to be protected.
The term ‘naturalisation’ is commonly used to describe the process a person goes through to acquire citizenship of a country. Interestingly, the word is also used in biology, referring to the introduction of plants into a country where they are not indigenous. But what if the two analogies could merge into one utopian world? What if passports were made of flowers?
Through a fictional naturalisation process, which takes place in front of a computer, Passfleur invites people to acquire their citizenship in an imaginary land, a garden called ‘Idem’. By answering questions, visitors can create their unique Passfleur document, while reflecting on the criteria of integration and the arbitrary system of inclusion.
Design Bachelor Project – Zurich University of the Arts
