What happens to a society when the body becomes the only resource left for regeneration?
In 2045, in the post-consumerism and climate restriction era, biotechnology advances redefined the boundaries between life, death and materiality.
The Human Compost Readiness Plan is a voluntary National Health System programme that prepares the living body to become a post-mortem commodity.
This is a speculative design project. All institutions, names, and documents are fictional and used for critical purposes only; they are not attributed to any real organisation or event.
10-week mineral regimen that lets a citizen choose, during life, to become a soft lasting gift for those who remain.
Human composting is legal in 14 US states;
Scotland legalised water cremation in 2026.
In New Jersey, the law already forbids selling soil that contains human remains.
The Human Compost Readiness Plan imagines the moment regenerative logic reaches the body itself. a health system preparing for it, and a society confronting its dilemma.
© 2025-26 Selene Tropiano. Concept, research, design and art direction by the author.
Form text content generated with Claude from original prompts, then structured and edited by the author; selected imagery created with Claude Design, rendered and adapted in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Additional photography via Adobe Stock, edited and composited by the author.