In collaboration with Kakia Gkoudina


What Are We Made Of? poses a double question. On one hand, the experience asks us to examine man’s reliance on materials for survival, what those materials currently consist of, and what they may look like in the future. On the other hand, it asks us to reflect on the will of humankind as if it were a material. Will humanity be brittle in our ways and remain unchanged until nature breaks us, or will we modify our mentality and invest in a future where nature and man can mutually thrive? Many feel hopeless as we bear the burden of our potential demise. But what if there was a future where instead of using our technological advances as an attempt to dominate nature, we use our technology to coexist in a more extreme and variable environment?

This 360-degree immersive experiences left participants feelings as if they had been shrunken down to the microscopic level, experiencing future materials functioning all around them. Each material sparked a question, which informed how that material would function and how we as people would function with that material in active use.

Transium: What if the sounds from your alarm could power your coffee maker?

Thnetium: What if materials could shapeshift?

Nascium: What if buildings, bridges, and roads could repaire themselves?

Fibrium: What if your entire closet was comprised of a single set of fibers?