Space Popular
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36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES, UK
London
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Space Popular is an architecture and media studio that explores the future of spatial experience through research, design, and artworks. The studio works with virtual reality, film, exhibitions, and writing, as well as buildings and objects, and is directed by architects 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. The studio has completed projects across Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture for the immersive internet (aka. the metaverse).
Clients, collaborators, and commissioners include national institutions such as MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy; The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design –ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; MEET digital culture Center in Milan, Italy; as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, Austria; and Sto Werkstatt, London, UK.
Architecture, Interiror Design, Research, Interface Design, Product Design, Event Design, virtual reality, and immersive internet
Space Popular
https://www.spacepopular.com/
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Great conversation with Jarrett Fuller on his podcast! Hope you enjoy it
Celebrating five+ years of collaborations and almost two decades of friendship between Shumi Bose and Space Popular (Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg), we’re sharing some of our recent projects.
This summer 2024 we got to unveil “Fables for our Time" at the Design Museum in London, a dynamic mural about the role of fables, folk stories and fairytales in understanding and responding to the climate emergency.
Many of our shared interests have resulted in projects about the impact of media on the built environment and our lives. In 2021 they produced the film, (cake) and installation “Let them eat Screens” about furniture and media.
In 2020 we were able to cram two years of research into Freestyle: Architectural Adventures in Mass Media, an installation and set of VR films by Space Popular curated by Shumi Bose at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The exhibition explored key moments in the parallel evolution of architectural styles and mass media over the last 500 years.
We’re going to keep making things together, so watch this space. The best thing about working together is pushing each other further than we’d go alone, while laughing our rear-ends off the entire time
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg appointed professors at Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Escucha a Lara Lesmes hablar sobre nuestro trabajo y arte inmersivo con Carlos Martorell (Shoeg) y Jesús Jara (Festival L.E.V.) en radio3 Fallo de Sistema con Santiago Bustamante.
https://lnkd.in/dbdgX3ZD
Recent interview with in South Korean magazine SPACE