The Animal Farm Simulator exhibition at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing explored a hypothetical future where humans and other species coexist and collaborate. The exhibition presented twelve international projects, including speculative design, video, installation, and other mediums.

Utility Pets is an experimental project that uses products to draw attention to the ethical consequences of xenotransplantation - the transplantation of animal organs into humans. In an imaginary, though not so-distant future, shortly after birth, people will be given a piglet with their own DNA engineered into it. The pig, known as a knockout pig in the scientific jargon, is a form of living insurance policy - an organ bank.

This project explores what kind of new objects might be needed if the pig lives in the home with its owner's family.

The Utility Pet products include:

1. A pig toy with a microphone and a radio handset allowing the owner to listen to the pig enjoying itself.

2. A smoke-filtering device allowing a person to smoke in front of the pig without it suffering the consequences of passive smoking.

3. A low-resolution TV exclusively for pigs, which they can control themselves.

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