Mini Speculative Design Project
Team
Armando Troisi
Stephen Espinosa
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My Role
Concept Development · Experience Design · Visual Design · Speculative Research
Primal tourism
" When nature becomes scarce, access becomes a privilege. An imagined future of travel, participation, and the last wild places. "
— THE QUESTION
What happens when wilderness becomes the world's most limited resource?
Keep Your
Curiosity
Sacred
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2046. Access to nature is no longer a given — it's earned.
Visitors train, qualify, take on a role, and enter Primal Preservation Zones with an analog passport and field journal.
No screens. No feeds. Just participation.
— THE FUTURE
2046
Wilderness is no longer
freely accessible.
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THE SIGNALS
Ecological Loss
Nature is becoming increasingly scarce.
Digital Fatigue
Travelers are increasingly seeking disconnection.
Regenerative Travel
Travel is shifting from consumption toward participation.
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Horizon Scanning
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Hushpitality
Economic
Luxury becomes disconnection.
Bio Travelers
Social
Travelers learn instead of simply consuming.
Last Chance
Environmental
Visitors pay to participate in ecological work.
—PRIMAL PRESERVATION ZONES
The last wild places aren't for everyone.
Earn your place. Return with more.
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The experience
01 Earn - Qualify for access
Entry is intentionally limited. Visitors complete training and sponsorship requirements before receiving permission to enter a PPZ.
02 Receive - Get Your Passport
Each traveler carries a handcrafted analog passport — a physical record of identity, contribution, and participation.
03 Participate - Take a Mantle
Upon arrival, visitors assume a role within the community: Hunter, Chef, Pathfinder, or Steward. Every role contributes to the ecosystem.
04 Disconnect - Live Analog
Inside the PPZ, field journals replace digital tools. Notes, observations, schedules, and discoveries are recorded by hand.
05 Return - Leave Changed
Visitors leave with their mantle and journal, carrying home new skills, shared knowledge, and a renewed relationship with the physical world.
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What You Carry
PPZ Passport - A physical record of identity, contribution, and participation.
Mantle
PPZ Journals
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Reflection
When Design Asks "What If?"
Most design work begins with a problem statement. This one began with a provocation.
We often design to make things easier — easier to access, easier to navigate, easier to consume. But what happens when the question is not "how to make access easier?" But “who should have access in the first place?”
Primal Tourism started with that tension. If wilderness became scarce, would access become something we earn? What would we need to contribute? Who gets to decide when we’ve earned our place?
The idea is intentionally uncomfortable. A passport can document participation, but it can also define who belongs. A system can protect something precious, but it can also create exclusion.
That tension is what made the project interesting to me. The goal wasn't to predict this future, but to use it as a lens for questioning the assumptions we bring into the present — about tourism, access, ownership, and our relationship with the natural world.
The passport isn't a deliverable. It's an argument.
And perhaps the more interesting question isn't whether wilderness should be earned, but why we ever assumed it was ours to consume in the first place.
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