As things become smarter and connected, their roles in people’s lives are challenged. Things become closer and closer to us, eventually becoming “users” themselves. How will we understand objects’ needs and perspectives and potentially design for them?

While designers and companies that deal with smartness and artificial intelligence try merge the gap between human and objects by designing objects and machines that resemble more humans in their form and interaction, we decided to take the opposite approach and create an experience for ‘humans’ to get closer to feeling and acting like objects.

Exhibited first at IXDA conference in Lyon in 2018, It received a major update as it was presented in San Paulo At FILE festival. For the occasion Bruce Sterling agreed to work with us and expand the piece with some housolds objects stories.

Many thanks to Bruce, Jasmina Tesanovic and Regine Debatty who were so kind to borrow our objects their voices.

The piece has eventually been acquired by the permanent collection of MAK Vienna who is gonna preserve hopefully for the next 100 years.