
Industry
Architecture
Exhibition & Experience Design
Year
2023
Imagine you were living in a world where the sky above Manhattan turned orange, the air was thick with smoke, and the city felt barely livable. Now imagine stepping through a doorway into New York in 2050: green, calm and full of life. For New York Climate Week 2023, IKEA’s Action Speaks summit invited visitors to experience both futures side by side, and to realize that the choice between them is still ours to make. With all that in mind, we collaborated with London-based studio Superflux to create a large-scale, multi-sensory exhibition and summit space across two floors.
Client
Services
Spatial Design
Experience Design
Art Direction
Animation
The first floor immerses visitors in these two visions, using an AI-generated skyline, smoke, sound and scent for the dark future, and native plants, mirrors and a curved, room-sized projection for the hopeful one. The second floor shows inventions and initiatives already in action around the world, changing how we eat, move, make, grow and power our lives. Projects are grouped on large, island-shaped tables that seem to float above the floor, a quiet reminder of rising sea levels. Bold, dynamic typography and organic neon shapes animate across hanging fabric screens, bringing key facts to life. All materials were sustainably sourced, and the tables were designed to be repurposed as furniture afterward.
As part of the design team at Isometric Studio, I worked on the project from concept to completion. I contributed to the experience design, shaping how visitors move through and feel each space, as well as the graphic design and animation, and took the work through execution.
















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