A Civic Architecture for the Immersive Internet (engl.)

Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg (directors of Space Popular) will discuss their research and proposals for a civic approach to cooperation and architecture in the virtual space and how notions of urbanity can be established in a space where the means of mobility have no precedent in the city as we know it.

Space Popular is a research-driven architecture, design, and media studio that explores the future of spatial experience. It is directed by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, both alumni of the Architectural Association in London (2011). They founded the practice in Bangkok (2013) and have been based in London and Spain since 2016. Space Popular creates spaces, objects, and events in both physical and virtual space, concentrating on how the two realms can blend together. The studio has completed buildings, exhibitions, public artworks, furniture collections, and interiors across Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture for the immersive internet.