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The Room of the Future<\/a> was designed by the Interaction Research Studio for the new gallery ‘Rooms Through Time: 1878 – 2049’ at the Museum of the Home in East London.

The project evolved from an open-ended speculative process, focusing on small, disjointed stories of the future, covering topics like climate change, geopolitics, London, and Hackney, rather than presenting a singular, all-encompassing view. To picture these future scenarios, we developed a set of characters: an intergenerational family of five that guided us in designing the items in their home, such as a memory intensification system, a farm-free protein-producing appliance, and a window offering a glimpse of what the East London might look like in 25 years.

The Room of the Future is conceived as a dynamic, evolving space, to be updated over the ten-year life of the exhibition with interactive artifacts reflecting societal and technological changes.

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The Room of the Future for the Museum of the Home imagines a household in 2049, exploring what homes may look like amid future challenges such as climate change, social inequality, and technological advancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/irs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}