Sentient Horizons
Degree Show 2024
The Degree Show is the exhibition that stages the best projects from the Interior, Product, and Visual Design courses, an important event to showcase the best vision of today's students, professionals of the future.
Each project transports the observer into a new world, with new horizons, to observe, immerse in, and admire. The outcomes will take shape in the setup curated by Alumni Matteo Agati and Ricardo Lucii together with the students.
Thanks to the use of AI and Sound Design, curated by Chiara Luzzana, in collaboration with 40 students who sampled sounds within the school, the visitor will be stimulated and accompanied on the journey by sounds and images. Following the concept of Sentient Horizons, an "exploratory" exhibition is proposed: a place/non-place, a physical bridge that overlooks new worlds, new perceptions, new eras.
The visitor will be effectively transported into different worlds.
Interior Design
The Interior Design department has reflected on the possibility of extending the boundaries of humanity into the surrounding space in a potential interplanetary future.
"Spaced Proximity" has imagined the interaction between the contemporary real environment and a futuristic vision of both artificial and natural environments that simulate terrestrial conditions and allow for new forms of life. The analysis of regenerative systems, robotic approaches, and advanced technologies will be valuable references for pioneering designers.
DISCOVER THE PROJECTSProduct Design
The Product Design department has explored the phenomenon of humanoid robots, such as Ameca by Engineered Arts, which exhibit such a high level of "humanity" as to be unsettling, due to the phenomenon called the "uncanny valley."
The presence of robots in our lives is destined to increase in the near future, thus posing an aesthetic question that involves the design culture since, to "feel" more human, robotic objects must appear less human, requiring a specific aesthetic strategy built upon the traditions of high-quality design.
DISCOVER THE PROJECTSVisual Design
The Visual Design department has focused on the latest changes in visual culture, referring to images and visual experiences designed to be explored, not just touched and looked at.
"Deep Imaging" invokes the mind's third dimension of space as it applies to environments that outline a new horizon capable of scanning, perceiving, and interacting, ultimately engaging with human experience and its visionary opportunities. Encoding visions, sounds, smells, tastes, surfaces ultimately means telling stories, as humans have done throughout their evolution, to shape cultures, knowledge, and experiences in a world yet to come.
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