Next Brave New World

Next Brave New World
Designing [possible] Future
Selections of projects engaged with the cultural and social impacts of technology
20/08/2014 – 16/09/2014
Arebyte gallery is happy to present ‘Next Brave New World’, an exhibition featuring a selection of projects from graduates of the Royal College of Art which engage with the cultural and social impacts of technology. The projects all inspect different aspects of possible future scenarios through the lens of speculative design, technological developments and social and political narratives.
Echoing Aldous Huxley, ‘Next Brave New World’ focusses on possible futures that sit inbetween utopians and dystopias and presents projects that describe the processes leading to these fictional worlds. The exhibition aims to observe the role of the individual as part of different agencies such as society, nature capital, happiness and culture.

The featured projects raise questions such as:
What is happiness and must we achieve it?
Must governments change to accommodate new needs and desires?
How will vanity and hedonism evolve with our use of technology?
Can we create new forms of life to enhance our experience of nature?
And how might our concepts of space and time change as we look past our own Life times and undertake to design this Next Brave New World?

Kathryn Fleming, Zoe Hough, Henrik Nieratschker, Adam Peakock, Alexa Pollmann

The show is taking part in ICON TRAIL part of London DesignWeek and Time Out’s First Thursdays