In their manifesto for the Dezeen 15 online festival, architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular propose portals made of virtual textiles to transform the experience of passing between digital worlds.
"Rather than swap pages when we switch tabs or click a link, we replace the entire environment around us," they write in their manifesto.
"In the coming 15 years, we must create a civic infrastructure for virtual teleportation that breaks with the discriminatory and opaque nature of locked doors, hidden vigilance, privacy breaches and concealed discrimination."
They propose "a threaded network of virtual textiles that our virtual selves pull aside to move between virtual environments.
"Such textiles only become apparent once we aim to touch them, pulling apart in mid-air the environment we are in and allowing us to access another." Alongside their manifesto, Dezeen has published a range of Space Popular's projects that make use of textiles as well as a teaser of their upcoming exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum.
The Dezeen 15 festival features 15 manifestos presenting ideas that could change the world over the next 15 years. Each contributor will also take part in a live video interview.
See the line-up of contributors here and watch the video interview with Space Popular live on Dezeen later today.

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