Micro-Utopia:
The Imaginary Potential of Home
A speculative prototype for a hybrid mixed-reality home.
Description:
Details:
In response to London’s pressing housing crisis Micro-Utopia proposes a shared, immersive and interactive version of a home, where space is born from the finely-tuned sensorial interplay between the body and virtual/physical objects connected to the Internet of Things. A chair invites us to stay with it for a moment; we crawl through a demanding fireplace; our hands are washed in a bowl of digital liquid - the highly speculative model of domesticity explores the architectural implication of co-inhabiting a minimal physical infrastructure within infinitely bespoke virtual worlds. Drawing on radical art practice, interiors in historical painting and contemporary product design, Micro-Utopia is the dream of a house that is nothing, but the parameters of our perception are triggered through the metaphorical dimension of the objects we interact with on a daily basis.
By:
Paula Strunden
Project Type:
MArch thesis project
Status:
Complete
Year:
2018
Links:
Exhibitions:
Gallery Neus Nijmegen
07.04.2019-12.05.2019
Frame Lab Amsterdam
20.02.2019-21.02.2019
OBJECT Rotterdam
08.02.2019-10.02.2019
Expanded Realities Exhibition London
05.09.2018-09.09.2018
Credits:
Voice
Bodo Neuss
UX Coding
Fabian Strunden
Sound Design
Kevin Pollard
Tutors
Michael Tite, Penelope Haralambidou & Kei Matsuda