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間APPENING

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"Come Unprepared"
Experience Design Happening- as the Immersive Design Research Lab opens a new research space for visceral, co-creative encounters.

Immersed in the city, we invite exploration through the in-between (間 ‘Ma’) of embodied experiences to evoke states of wonder and images of possible futures.
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Developed through an Imagist methodology, the design happening is participatory, inviting you to become a collaborator, an agent in shaping what comes next.

“Come unprepared”
–the future is design…
is 間appening.
間 ‘Ma’
Immersed in the city, we invite exploration through the in-between (間 ‘Ma’) of embodied experiences to evoke states of wonder and images of possible futures.
Methodology: Imagism
The future is abstract, dominated by anticipation and visualized through abstract ideas. Intuitively, that process begins with images; first we say, “what will the future ‘look’ like?”
Design = Action Research
The process of designing the experiential future is constructed through active imagining. While we imagine the future, we make it.
Design = Action Research
The process of designing the experiential future is constructed through active imagining. While we imagine the future, we make it.
Methodology: Imagism
The future is abstract, dominated by anticipation and visualized through abstract ideas. Intuitively, that process begins with images; first we say, “what will the future ‘look’ like?”
Desigining for Wonder
Wonder is sensory, visceral, and unexpected - both in interaction, and reaction. Therefore, we take an ‘experience-first’ approach.
Immersive Design Research Lab (IDRL) Design 間APPENING
Inspired by the radical 1950’s and ‘60s performance art Happenings, and re-envisioned as advanced design methods, each ‘experience-first’ engagement is design in action.
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