Prêt-à-Créer
Academic
Product Design
Miscellaneous
Overview
Prêt-à-Créer is a speculative product designed as part of a future design and prototyping exercise around the theme of transformation. The brief asked us to imagine a world where that theme had fully played out, which led to the scenario El equilibrio autogenerativo en lo común: a postcapitalist future where money has been replaced by the Vital Balance, a biometric metric based on personal wellbeing, community contribution, and ecosystem health.
In this world, fast fashion is socially obsolete, basic needs are guaranteed by automated systems, and people value making over consuming. The goal was to design a product native to that world: one that gives people agency over what they wear, uses biological materials with zero industrial process, and fits naturally into an economy built on regeneration and shared use.
Process
The starting point was the scenario itself. Rather than designing a product and fitting it into the world, we worked in reverse. We mapped the world's constraints: no factories, no traditional currency, an economy of circular objects, a cultural emphasis on self-sufficiency, and asked what kind of product those constraints would naturally produce. The answer was something home-scale, biological, and hands-on.
The name came early and shaped everything after it. Prêt-à-porter (also known as "ready to wear") is the language of the fashion industry we were designing against. Inverting it to prêt-à-créer (ready to create) set the tone: same register, opposite logic. From that point, the voice of the product became a manifesto as much as a set of instructions.
The packaging concept followed the same logic. The box needed to be the entire production process: no external tools, no factory, no steps that happened elsewhere. The solution was a single object containing an inner mold shaped to the garment shown on the box, and a tube port through which the user injects their chosen biomaterial. The garment packaging on the outside tells you what you're about to grow before you even open it.
Three tone registers were tested: technical, poetic, and manifesto. The final voice landed between the last two: urgent enough to feel like a position, simple enough to double as an instruction. The future of fashion is in your hands. Mix. Pour. Wear.
Solution
The final product is a self-contained kit. Each box contains an inner mold shaped to a specific garment: the silhouette is cut out on the lid so you know what you're making before you begin. The user mixes their chosen biomaterial (mycelium, gelatin, or any flexible biopolymer), injects it through the tube port, and leaves it to cure. In under 15 minutes, the mold releases a wearable piece.
The product ships in multiple material editions: mycelium, gelatin, biopolymer, among others, with the same mold producing a different texture and finish depending on what's injected. The mold itself is reusable, designed to circulate within the scenario's shared-object economy. Nothing is wasted; everything is made intentionally.
The identity is built around inversion. The name, the copy, the packaging structure, all of it works by taking familiar fashion language and flipping its logic. Where prêt-à-porter implies passivity and mass production, Prêt-À-Créer implies agency and singularity. Every piece is unique because every hand is different.
Outcome
Prêt-à-Créer makes the values of the scenario tangible and personal, turning biological autonomy from a political idea into a daily act. The product translates a speculative world into something you can hold, use, and wear.
Presented at IED Madrid's Hyper Futures 2026, an exposition featuring 30+ future artifacts across student teams.
Team
Alejandro Peña · Assaad Awad · Julián Trotman
Tools
Adobe Illustrator · Laser Cutter
Role
Concept Making · Crafting · Product Design
Methods
Prototyping · Laser Cutting · Laser Engraving
Prêt-à-Créer
Academic
Product Design
Miscellaneous
Overview
Prêt-à-Créer is a speculative product designed as part of a future design and prototyping exercise around the theme of transformation. The brief asked us to imagine a world where that theme had fully played out, which led to the scenario El equilibrio autogenerativo en lo común: a postcapitalist future where money has been replaced by the Vital Balance, a biometric metric based on personal wellbeing, community contribution, and ecosystem health.
In this world, fast fashion is socially obsolete, basic needs are guaranteed by automated systems, and people value making over consuming. The goal was to design a product native to that world: one that gives people agency over what they wear, uses biological materials with zero industrial process, and fits naturally into an economy built on regeneration and shared use.
Process
The starting point was the scenario itself. Rather than designing a product and fitting it into the world, we worked in reverse. We mapped the world's constraints: no factories, no traditional currency, an economy of circular objects, a cultural emphasis on self-sufficiency, and asked what kind of product those constraints would naturally produce. The answer was something home-scale, biological, and hands-on.
The name came early and shaped everything after it. Prêt-à-porter (also known as "ready to wear") is the language of the fashion industry we were designing against. Inverting it to prêt-à-créer (ready to create) set the tone: same register, opposite logic. From that point, the voice of the product became a manifesto as much as a set of instructions.
The packaging concept followed the same logic. The box needed to be the entire production process: no external tools, no factory, no steps that happened elsewhere. The solution was a single object containing an inner mold shaped to the garment shown on the box, and a tube port through which the user injects their chosen biomaterial. The garment packaging on the outside tells you what you're about to grow before you even open it.
Three tone registers were tested: technical, poetic, and manifesto. The final voice landed between the last two: urgent enough to feel like a position, simple enough to double as an instruction. The future of fashion is in your hands. Mix. Pour. Wear.
Solution
The final product is a self-contained kit. Each box contains an inner mold shaped to a specific garment: the silhouette is cut out on the lid so you know what you're making before you begin. The user mixes their chosen biomaterial (mycelium, gelatin, or any flexible biopolymer), injects it through the tube port, and leaves it to cure. In under 15 minutes, the mold releases a wearable piece.
The product ships in multiple material editions: mycelium, gelatin, biopolymer, among others, with the same mold producing a different texture and finish depending on what's injected. The mold itself is reusable, designed to circulate within the scenario's shared-object economy. Nothing is wasted; everything is made intentionally.
The identity is built around inversion. The name, the copy, the packaging structure, all of it works by taking familiar fashion language and flipping its logic. Where prêt-à-porter implies passivity and mass production, Prêt-À-Créer implies agency and singularity. Every piece is unique because every hand is different.
Outcome
Prêt-à-Créer makes the values of the scenario tangible and personal, turning biological autonomy from a political idea into a daily act. The product translates a speculative world into something you can hold, use, and wear.
Presented at IED Madrid's Hyper Futures 2026, an exposition featuring 30+ future artifacts across student teams.
Team
Alejandro Peña · Assaad Awad · Julián Trotman
Tools
Adobe Illustrator · Laser Cutter
Role
Concept Making · Crafting · Product Design
Methods
Prototyping · Laser Cutting · Laser Engraving
Prêt-à-Créer
Academic
Product Design
Miscellaneous
Overview
Prêt-à-Créer is a speculative product designed as part of a future design and prototyping exercise around the theme of transformation. The brief asked us to imagine a world where that theme had fully played out, which led to the scenario El equilibrio autogenerativo en lo común: a postcapitalist future where money has been replaced by the Vital Balance, a biometric metric based on personal wellbeing, community contribution, and ecosystem health.
In this world, fast fashion is socially obsolete, basic needs are guaranteed by automated systems, and people value making over consuming. The goal was to design a product native to that world: one that gives people agency over what they wear, uses biological materials with zero industrial process, and fits naturally into an economy built on regeneration and shared use.
Process
The starting point was the scenario itself. Rather than designing a product and fitting it into the world, we worked in reverse. We mapped the world's constraints: no factories, no traditional currency, an economy of circular objects, a cultural emphasis on self-sufficiency, and asked what kind of product those constraints would naturally produce. The answer was something home-scale, biological, and hands-on.
The name came early and shaped everything after it. Prêt-à-porter (also known as "ready to wear") is the language of the fashion industry we were designing against. Inverting it to prêt-à-créer (ready to create) set the tone: same register, opposite logic. From that point, the voice of the product became a manifesto as much as a set of instructions.
The packaging concept followed the same logic. The box needed to be the entire production process: no external tools, no factory, no steps that happened elsewhere. The solution was a single object containing an inner mold shaped to the garment shown on the box, and a tube port through which the user injects their chosen biomaterial. The garment packaging on the outside tells you what you're about to grow before you even open it.
Three tone registers were tested: technical, poetic, and manifesto. The final voice landed between the last two: urgent enough to feel like a position, simple enough to double as an instruction. The future of fashion is in your hands. Mix. Pour. Wear.
Solution
The final product is a self-contained kit. Each box contains an inner mold shaped to a specific garment: the silhouette is cut out on the lid so you know what you're making before you begin. The user mixes their chosen biomaterial (mycelium, gelatin, or any flexible biopolymer), injects it through the tube port, and leaves it to cure. In under 15 minutes, the mold releases a wearable piece.
The product ships in multiple material editions: mycelium, gelatin, biopolymer, among others, with the same mold producing a different texture and finish depending on what's injected. The mold itself is reusable, designed to circulate within the scenario's shared-object economy. Nothing is wasted; everything is made intentionally.
The identity is built around inversion. The name, the copy, the packaging structure, all of it works by taking familiar fashion language and flipping its logic. Where prêt-à-porter implies passivity and mass production, Prêt-À-Créer implies agency and singularity. Every piece is unique because every hand is different.
Outcome
Prêt-à-Créer makes the values of the scenario tangible and personal, turning biological autonomy from a political idea into a daily act. The product translates a speculative world into something you can hold, use, and wear.
Presented at IED Madrid's Hyper Futures 2026, an exposition featuring 30+ future artifacts across student teams.
Team
Alejandro Peña · Assaad Awad · Julián Trotman
Tools
Adobe Illustrator · Laser Cutter
Role
Concept Making · Crafting · Product Design
Methods
Prototyping · Laser Cutting · Laser Engraving
