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Monash Art, Design and Architecture Student Exhibition 2022

Wanmei (Caitlyn) Cai

As a spatial designer in a world with rapid technological development, my practice focuses on understanding humanity's diversity and constantly investigating and experimenting with the unknown to remove social prejudices and propose possibilities for a better future. Through my design experiences, my passion towards speculative design and the metaverse came along as a huge inspiration.

"Beyong Imagination"

Beyond imagination speculates a different way of future play going beyond reality into the metaverse. Through the process of investigating the group of Aphantasia, with imagery and possible outcomes of their imagination, creating a platform allows exploration and communication between Aphantasia and Non-aphantasia. Beyond imagination makes a connection between diversity and hopes to raise societal awareness in the future.

"A render view of the entrance"

Beyond imagination is a meta-society speculating future play from investigating the unknown of visualising the human brain, creating a passage for communicating and understanding the diversity with aphantasia and non-aphantasia.

"The Community"

The project creates platforms allowing multiple access to the meta-society happening simultaneously, generating information and distributing it to different users. It is the space where communication, interaction, the connection between diversity and further on understanding happen.

"The Interaction"

Aphantasia's imagination with the process of imagination will be calculated and shown according to users, with the technologies of optical three-dimensional, virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality.

"The Massive Communication"

The community opens access to an individual user as well as a group. It's flexible to one-on-one interaction, consultations, small group discussions and presentations.
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'Beyond Imagination'

A closer connect to Beyond Imagination.

View full video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4UCC2xpR3M

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