21.10.24 – 10h
HighFi to LoFi Continuum
Darsha Hewitt

28.10.24 – 10h
In Your Limitation, I Expand
Juliana Toro

12.11.24 – 15h
Augmented Consciousness –
The Poetics of Extended Realities
Dagmar Schürrer

18.11.24 – 10h (online)
The (Time) Machine (Stops)
Mariko Takagi

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„How we have advanced, thanks to the Machine!“*

Below ground, in an ordered world, people live in isolation, completely dependent on the ‘machine’ that monitors communication and is worshipped like a divine power. The human need for personal encounters or touch no longer exists.

In the winter semester of 2024_25, the design and exhibition project of the Class for Spatial Design and Exhibition Design will be exploring the dystopian science fiction story ‘The Machine Stops’ by E.M. Forster, which he wrote as early as 1909, and the novel ‘The Time Machine’ by H.G. Wells from 1865. In the resulting artistic projects, we want to deal with the spatial and thus also the world views of these ideas, which are characterised by technology, spatially-narratively and medially.

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A joint design and exhibition project, initiated by Prof. Mariko Takagi – Doshisha Women‘s College of Liberal Arts Kyoto, Japan.
* A passenger on board of the Airship, in: E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops, 1908

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