2024-11-21T11:16:49-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150342781/a-futuristic-spa-hosts-joshua-a-dawson-s-latest-cautionary-tale-on-climate-change Niall Patrick Walsh 2023-03-16T13:19:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b2/b2205d41b31529c60134afb0ed90f1e2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Designer and director <a href="https://joshua-dawson.com/openin" target="_blank">Joshua A. Dawson</a> has published his latest short film which strikes a cautionary note on the confluences of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/167905/climate-change" target="_blank">climate change</a>, architecture, and capitalism. Titled <a href="https://joshua-dawson.com/spa-sybarite" target="_blank">Spa Sybarite</a>, the three-minute-long film is set in a futuristic wellness spa in which users are offered treatments in response to the planet&rsquo;s degrading environmental conditions.</p> <p></p> <p>Dawson&rsquo;s cautionary film presents a commentary on how the climate crisis "provides a perfect excuse to make every business a climate business." Far from science fiction, the treatments offered in the film&rsquo;s spa are familiar to today&rsquo;s industry, including bathing complexes, IV therapy, nutrition-specific hydroponic systems, and Immersive virtual reality caves.</p> <p>&ldquo;Wellness is a multi-trillion-dollar industry,&rdquo; Dawson told <em>The New York Times</em> in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/movies/climate-change-design-stories.html" target="_blank">recent article</a> on his work and influences, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before someone takes the obvious opportunity to market wellness as the solution to climate-based illness, the bigg...</p>