This about tech without tech workshop will look at the impact of immersive media (namely VR) in the home through the ideas of the VENN ROOM and the GLOBAL HOME developed by Space Popular. Making 1:1 chalk-spray drawings out in the courtyard lawn we will experience the effects that new technologies will have in our domestic spaces.
VENN ROOM* describes the overlapping phenomenon that takes place when two or more people gather remotely via immersive media (namely VR). The relationship between the homes at each end of the gathering forms a chain or bundle of rooms that behaves very much like a series of Venn diagrams, where the overlay areas equate to a shared mediated space. These rooms form what we call a GLOBAL HOME, echoing Marshall McLuhan's term Global Village popularised in the 1960s to describe a connected planet where an event in one part of the world could be virtually experienced anywhere in real time.
*Term coined by Space Popular in 2019 and included in the 7th edition of A History of Western Architecture by David Watkin.
Duration : 3-4h
Maximum number of participants : 20
Space Popular is an art, design and architecture studio that explores the future of spatial experience through research, design, and artworks. The studio is directed by architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg.
