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02 October 2025

“Lost Futures,” an immersive virtual reality installation designed by students of the Master in Design for Interaction and Extended Realities, has been exhibited in the exhibition “Plural Futures: A Map of an Asynchronous Tomorrow"

From 13 to 21 September, students from the Master in Design for Interaction and Extended Realities have participated in the latest edition of the London Design Festival with “Lost Futures”. An immersive VR installation that explores memory, desire, and the disappearance of the future in an era of climate collapse.

The project, selected for the exhibition “Plural Futures: A Map of an Asynchronous Tomorrow” curated by Synonym Lab and supported by the Koppel Project and MANA within the Backward Compatibility program, stages the year 3025. An imaginary future in which the Earth has become a blurred ghost of itself. From this perspective, visitors encounter fragments of our present, reinterpreted as archaeological relics.

Students: Valentina Bassanello, Pola Pucheta, Semeli Tisarchontou, Qianyin Xia.

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