A documentary series on the future of living will launch during Milan Design Week 2022. The films – a collaboration between Frame founder Robert Thiemann and Huawei’s Milan Aesthetic Research Centre – reveal the forward-looking visions of 30 international creators.
Comprised of four chapters, the Tomorrow Living series investigates how we can truly optimize our life at home using technology, making it adaptable to the inevitable environmental, social and political changes global society faces this century. To get a truly holistic perspective on the future of domestic space, Thiemann and Huawei’s Milan Aesthetic Research Centre enlisted the expertise of some of the world’s most influential designers, architects, artists and scientists.
The Tomorrow Living interviews reveal the myriad ways that spaces for living can be conceived to be more restorative, responsive, resilient and responsible, effectively becoming more sustainable for people and the planet in our emerging mixed reality. They critically examine the role that intelligent technology can play as an enabler for this, a tool to help us reconnect with nature, empower communities and contribute to domestic environments. Metaverse artist Krista Kim is one creative featured in the films. To her, tomorrow living entails the ‘enhancement and extension of human life through cutting-edge technology’.
Cover and above: Contributor Alexis Christodolou, founder and creative director of Color C Studio, creates 3D-rendered artworks that propose forward-looking spatial situations. Christodolou's domestic settings inspire new perspectives of home.
But how can this be achieved? According to fellow participant Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, founder of the interdisciplinary agency 2050+, ‘We can be responsible only by looking at design and architecture through the lens of very urgent questions.’ Also among the contributors are Carlo Ratti, founding partner of Carlo Ratti Associati, Marjan van Aubel, inventor and solar designer, international art collective teamLab, and Nicolas Henchoz, director of EPFL+ECAL Lab.
The films will be screened throughout the duration of Milan Design Week at MEET Digital Culture Centre. Accompanying the launch is an immersive experience designed by London-and Spain-based multidisciplinary studio Space Popular, which is headed by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg. MEET founder Maria Grazia Mattei explains that the experience will ‘give a very personal meaning to all the nuances of the future’, providing visitors with the opportunity to consider how design and technology will shape our future habitats from all angles.
The MEET Digital Culture Center is located at Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan, Italy. Tomorrow Living’s screenings will take place from 10.00 to 19.00 from 5 to 12 June 2022. Register for your visit here.
