MONKEY & MEN
PLANET EARTH: 2152-06-02
This is a statement and it starts with a question:
Do you think the existence of your consciousness does have a purpose?
Based on my predictions animal testing on non-human primates will be prohibited in about 135 years from now. Worldwide hundreds of thousands of primates, mostly macaques are abused and killed in painful and terrifying experiments with a 92% failure rate every year. Macaques are sensitive, intelligent beings who share many important biological and psychological characteristics, and 93% of their DNA with us humans.
The futuristic dark-energy powered sanctuary floats throughout the world’s ocean while it re-socializes thousands of abused monkeys as it gives them a very first glimpse of freedom. As the human evolves his desire to possess objects of a materialistic nature will gradually be replaced by the desire to understand, to help, and to find individual solutions and create new realities.
„Monkey & Men“ is a symbolic universe that promotes interspecies-communication by emphasizing the use of emotional intelligence to study the macaque's behavior in a positively impacting rather than self-enriching way.
Furthermore, there is indoor food production and an artificial submerged coral reef, also has both of educational and idealistic value. The idea is to help the offspring of those who have suffered for us. To clarify, this is not a zoo, the monkeys are not treated as voyeuristic objects, and the architecture implies quite the opposite. The roles are reversed. As they are unable to survive on their own at first they will be given the opportunity to form groups, socialize, climb hills, and swing from tree to tree for the first time. They will be released into the wild into one of the few remaining forested areas.
It is not us who make planet Earth special but its future does lie in our hands.
