Meet the designer: The Sleep Warrior by Teresa van Twuijver https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/teresa.vantwuijver/ bit.ly/sleepwarrior-fabricademy

Our economy is literally making people sick. Our 24-7 mind-set causes a chronic lack of sleep. 50% of the people in so-called ‘industrialised’ societies are sleep deprived. 25% have serious sleep problems. Meanwhile the planet’s biosphere has become sick too. The 24-7 economy creates pollution and disrupts the earth’s ecology. The same thing that is disturbing our sleep is also ruining our planet.

The Sleep Warrior is a celestial being who helps us to deal with this reality. She lovingly helps us to reverse climate change by embracing sleep instead of fighting it. She makes us turn off our screens and lights. She inspires us to dream of a better world and actually build it while doing so.

The Sleep Warrior is a speculative research project into how the bedroom can be converted into a wearable bed for more and better sleep in this day and age. The project also fits nomadic circumstances of future generations having to continually migrate elsewhere due to global warming.