Jeongseok Hwang, Minjeong Kim, Soohyun Namkoong / Royal College of Art — SHADOOR

Speculative project set in 2035 exploring shadow as a space of privacy and freedom, resisting surveillance within intelligent systems.

by BASE Milano

The Shadoor project envisions the year 2035, in which space has been absorbed into the operational systems of machines and intelligent objects, and proposes an alternative use of shadow as a mode of thought to preserve the last dignity of the human. Here, shadow is no longer a simple physical phenomenon, but functions as a representation of privacy and a medium that symbolizes freedom from mechanical surveillance. 

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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.

So... is this getting serious?

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