🪤 Metaphysical furniture, 2023
While private spaces shrink, another world doubles in size every year: the metaverse. More and more people could flee into virtual reality, where digital space grows, to claim bigger digital spaces to cope with the lack of physical space. If we are using VR like we are using it now, it will need a lot of empty space, rendering all non essential furniture and objects obsolete. Like video games, 3D worlds are not touchable exactly at the borders of their 3D-models: they are separated in invisible hit-boxes and invisible walls. Knowing that one company owns the metaverse, they are directing what we see and how we interact with it. The two pieces are representing basic human needs (storage and rest), with side, front, back and top views of digital, impossible objects projected on simple cubic furniture, are referencing the first 3D models and materialise the invisible hit-boxes onto physical objects.
Shown at
OPEN STUDIO, Tag der offenen Tür 3, Vienna, 2025
CODING, Vienna Design Week, Design in Gesellschaft, Vienna, 2024
Photo credits - Luca Celine
While private spaces shrink, another world doubles in size every year: the metaverse. More and more people could flee into virtual reality, where digital space grows, to claim bigger digital spaces to cope with the lack of physical space. If we are using VR like we are using it now, it will need a lot of empty space, rendering all non essential furniture and objects obsolete. Like video games, 3D worlds are not touchable exactly at the borders of their 3D-models: they are separated in invisible hit-boxes and invisible walls. Knowing that one company owns the metaverse, they are directing what we see and how we interact with it. The two pieces are representing basic human needs (storage and rest), with side, front, back and top views of digital, impossible objects projected on simple cubic furniture, are referencing the first 3D models and materialise the invisible hit-boxes onto physical objects.
Shown at
OPEN STUDIO, Tag der offenen Tür 3, Vienna, 2025
CODING, Vienna Design Week, Design in Gesellschaft, Vienna, 2024
Photo credits - Luca Celine