Messages for the future
There are more and more situations that confront designers with the distant future. Can we guarantee that an artifact will survive for millennia? How can one communicate with a reader who will receive the message in the very distant future, when the language and culture will be immensely different? Can communication design offer solutions to these problems?
Through an analysis of the case studies, this thesis proposes to compile and present the research and solutions conceived nowadays by various designers to communicate with eternity, spanning from long term nuclear waste warning messages to forms of communications sent into deep space in the chance of encountering forms of extraterrestrial intelligence.