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Giving a sense to fiction

  • Publish On 7 July 2021
  • Ramy Fischler
  • 5 minutes

Designer Ramy Fischler looks back at the Sens-Fiction exhibition, produced as part of the Lille Métropole World Design Capital event. Noting a ‘breakdown of imaginaries,’ he proposes inventing new stories to figure out desirable futures.

An online exhibition to be visited here

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