We invite you to see our in-development project for this public open studio day.

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Shared spaces are disappearing in today’s fast-paced and urbanizing, algorithmic world. People live close together yet often feel disconnected. How might new technologies, like AI and XR, be used to create spaces where connection can be more meaningfully cultivated?

Inter(mediate) Spaces brings two people together in an experience that blends virtual and physical spaces to explore technology’s promise of connection. In this social experiment, two people don virtual reality headsets and begin at opposite ends of the room, gradually moving through layered digital audiovisual memory landscapes created in community labs held in Berlin, New York, and Montreal. As the two people arrive at a shared meeting point, they see their interactions and words shape an imagined world around them. This moment of convergence becomes a poetic and physical expression of connection, moving across evolving spaces and distance. The project asks us to reflect on our agency to collectively shape our shared future.

“Community might be the most potent counter to a fractured society [and] it can be something found while shaping a collective vision that holds multiple possibilities.”

The Berlin environments were co-created during a public lab co-presented with A.MAZE Festival at the Silent Green in Berlin’s Wedding May 2024. This prototype phase invites everyday passersby to try the experience and contribute feedback that will shape the final version.

This presentation is funded by Medienboard Berlin‐Brandenburg with the support of Culterim. Email
info@presentfutures.de for further questions.