Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

In today’s postcolonial world, critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha speaks about boundaries in culture as a place of liminality or “third space” where translations and negotiations occur. Liminal space and the notion of the threshold represent a space of ambiguity that engenders new possibilities and change. These spaces become the stage for transitory and frontier events that possess agencies for disrupting and challenging the status quo.
In The Laboratory of the Future, using models, drawings and film, to cast liminal space as a zone between design practice and theoretical exploration, Neri&Hu present three adaptive reuse projects to highlight the studio’s research. Liminality as a construct allows one to traverse both physical as well as allusive temporal thresholds, creating a visceral perception of the intersections of past, present, and future.

Team
Christine Chang, Federico Saralvo, Chris Chienchuan Chen, Guangyi Niu, Jieqi Li, Yingxin Zhang, Yinzhu Shen, R.L.Nitya, Luna Hong, Lyuqitiao Wang, Serein Liu, Amy Cao, Hazel Zheng
With the additional support of
Shanghai Yi Xuan Model Design and Manufacture Co., Ltd., Pegenaute Studio, Jeremiah Neri Studio, Novità