Future Scouting…
The Pluriverse of Health
How can advances in biotechnology foster pluriversal health beliefs?
Signals
Biotech
Wellness
The scenario
Body system technology advances to accurately monitor electrochemical, electromagnetic, temperature, movement, breathing rate, heart rate, blood analysis, and hydration to simulate monitoring of alternate health approaches such as qi and the meridians, chakra spin and kundalini flow—as well as key bio-medical aspects.
The design fiction concept
A biotechnology patch that uses various combinations of data sources to foster wellness diversity and allow the discovery of other beliefs (Western bio-medical, Traditional Chinese, or Tantric Buddhism).
Wellness diversity
Wello uses various combinations of data sources to monitor alternate health approaches, including qi and the meridians, chakra spin and kundalini flow, and key bio-medical aspects.
Electrochemical | Electromagnetic | Temperature | Movement | Breathing | Heart | Blood | Hydration
Wellness choice
Wello currently supports Western bio-medical, Traditional Chinese, and Tantric Buddhism systems by monitoring:
Choose your medical belief (Western bio-medical, Traditional Chinese, or Tantric Bhuddism) to receive related body map for patch adhesion, and Wellos will track your health according to chakra flow and alignment, qi flow, or bio-medical indicators.
E-textile real-time feedback and guidance
Wello’s skin-like e-textile digitally displays information about your wellness and uses heat and vibration to prompt and guide you through wellness activities.
Barely there, or loud and proud
Small and flat, you’ll forget the patches are there. Or customise your patches to reflect your personality.
Sustainabilities
- Patches are made at local labs from organic, enviro-farmed and enviro-manufactured materials via a carbon-neutral process
- Reusable packaging to be used as a satchel to return to manufacturing for repurposing when no longer working
- As well as drawing energy via wifi from the device, Wello patches draw free kinetic energy from the body
Values
Future Scouting aims to champion values during futuring to ensure we are always fostering our preferred futures.
The values championed through this scouting were:
Diversity
Health