Thoughts on the Symbiosis Immersive experience by POLYMORF
Description of the experience Symbiosis is a virtual reality installation by Dutch experience design collective POLYMORF. It aims to explore the potential of symbiotic relationships between humans and other living entities, both present and future, on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. The installation offers a performative and multi-sensory experience, in which participants can embody…
DELL World Client Project
This design project was for DELL’s origin blue team. Every year DELL puts on a B2B conference called DELL World. The brief for our team was to come up with a physical build and immersive activation that highlighted DELL’s sustainability initiatives; mainly their efforts in circular economy, fossil fuel reduction, and educational initiatives. We ideated…
Meet Margaret Experience Design Project
The central aim of meet Margret was to merge the needs of the homeless community in Austin, TX with the needs of the needs of the community in Austin that voted for Prop B (the legislation that banned camping). After conducting preliminary qualitative research, we ideated and designed a Web-AR experience that could help these…
Mirages: Experience Design Project Proposal
Mirages is an in-person ticketed experience that is a mix between an escape room, and an experimentalinteractive VR-film series. It is centered around the idea that immersive experiences are more impactful,and that simple conversations are the best ways to build empathy. This experience seeks to bring theaudience into the future where they can experience the…
The Paradox of Fiction
The paradox of fiction was proposed by Colin Radford, who argued it was paradoxical to have emotional responses to fictional characters. The argument for the paradox as Radford lays it out goes as follows: (a) We often have emotions for fictional characters and situations known to be purely fictional. (b) Emotions for objects logically presuppose…