Today, Virtual Design Festival teams up with artist Lucy McRae, starting with a screening of her short film The Institute of Isolation, which explores how architecture could help the human body evolve to survive long-distance space travel.
Set in a near-future reality, the 2016 movie features McRae as the protagonist at a "fictional research and training ground, offering alternative methods to condition the body and adapt fundamental aspects of human biology," according to the artist.
Lucy McRae stars as the protagonist in The Institute of Isolation, which is being screened as part of VDF
The film references space travel, genetic engineering and the changing relationship the body forms with technology, depicting sensory chambers to explore the role buildings could play in altering human biology on an evolutionary scale. "It's a continuation from my curiosity into space travel and human evolution," McRae told Dezeen in 2016. "How do we survive when we exit Earth""

The Los Angeles-based artist is fascinated by the interaction between the human body and technology and has previously told Dezeen that she wants to give science fiction an overdue sex change.
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