Research studio Lithuanian Space Agency has imagined a fictional world in outer space that would be created from people 3D-scanned at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Titled Planet of People, the Lithuanian pavilion is located in the renaissance Santa Maria dei Derelitti church and centred around a 3D scanner that scans visitors to send them into space as digital simulations.
As more people visit and take part in the exhibition the scanned visitors and simulations will form a new planet that is made up entirely of the scanned people.
Top: the installation is Lithuania's contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale. Above: large structures were placed throughout the space
"It is important to consider the project as an interactive architectural fiction, in which a visitor becomes a co-architect of the planet made out of human bodies," said Lithuanian Space Agency founder, Julijonas Urbonas. "This project is a crossover between speculative design and architecture," he told Dezeen.
"Here, architecture is not physically tangible but imagined instead," he continued. "By considering architecture on a planetary scale, for instance, terraforming, we're able to view earthly architecture differently."
The installation was organised in the centre of the space
Curated by Dutch educator Jan Boelen, the exhibition proposes a fictional outer space that combines "gravitational aesthetics" and "cosmic imagination".
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