Kexin Li is a final year student studying Spatial Design. In this semester, she is exploring how design could bring peace of mind to the elderly in their old age, and reduce the impact of chronic illness on families. Plan T. (Plan of Thinking) is a long-term project for the privileged elite. This project aims to increase production of newborn neurons in the laboratory, to treat age-associated cognitive decline.
Plan T.
Description: This is a laboratory with three domes, the one on the right is a storeroom, used to store frozen placenta, the left one is for the transplant. The biggest dome is where neurons grow.
The Lab
Description: Neurons are nourished by a nutrient solution in the middle and surrounded by tables placed with wearable neurons.
The Lab
Description: Each table equipped with a temperature control system to provide the temperature required for neuron growth. In addition to the nutrient linked to the petri dish, another liquid is stored in the table, this liquid will be jellified as it warms up, mimicking the tissue a brain would normally be surrounded with in an embryo.
Storerooom
Room for torage of frozen cells. After stem cells are extracted from the placenta, they will be frozen and stored here for use.
Inside of the dome
Description: After the wearable neurons leave the laboratory and are transplanted into a person, it will continue to grow depending on the blood.
Wearable neurons
Description: This is what people wear, a semicircular container with a diameter of 3cm containing neurons, it will connect with the spine and blood vessels. The side touching people’s skin is using a temperature sensing material.
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