Jeongseok Hwang, Minjeong Kim, Soohyun Namkoong / Royal College of Art — SHADOOR

Speculative project set in 2035 exploring shadow as a space of privacy and freedom, resisting surveillance within intelligent systems.

by BASE Milano

Luminous Depths is an exploration by RUFA students into darkness as a space for creative regeneration rather than fear. Moving away from the era of overexposure, the exhibition presents objects that act as beacons of intuition. It is an invitation to explore hidden ecologies and new ways of living, proving that the brightest ideas often emerge from the deepest shadows. 

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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.

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