Future Spaces Vision Lab
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Mediated Balancing | Tech For Life
Triennale Milano in Shenzhen
Location: OCAT B10, Second Floor, Hall 4, North OCT Loft, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Date: April 26 – May 18, 2026
Curator & Exhibitor: Enza Migliore and Mirna Zordan
As one of the key events of Shenzhen Design Week 2026, Mediated Balancing | Tech For Life puts life at the heart of design, and it frames technology as a mediator enriching and redefining the ways we inhabit the world. Building on the research and exhibited works developed by the curators from the School of Design at SUSTech for the 24th Milan Triennale, the exhibition recontextualizes Triennale concepts through localized translation and reinterpretation within the Shenzhen context.
UABB 2026
Beyond Words
Location: Hetao Technology Innovation Center, Shenzhen
Date: 2026. 1. 15-2026. 3. 31
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
Beyond Words is an interactive installation created by Arch. Dr. Mirna Zordan with Min Liu and Khaliun Ganbat from the Future Spaces Vision Lab, SUSTech School of Design. Presented at UABB 2026 in Shenzhen, the work reinterprets the telephone booth as a small-scale perceptual laboratory for exploring non-verbal, affect-based communication in contemporary cities. UABB 2026 has also been featured in ArchDaily.
The installation invites two participants into paired telephone booths equipped with heart-rate sensors. Their real-time cardiac activity is translated into a dynamic audiovisual environment, revealing how the “rhythms of the self” and the “rhythms of the other” merge, interfere, and co-generate a shared field of post-linguistic emotional resonance.
INVISIBILI / INVISIBLES 2025
PRESENCE MATTERS
Location: Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen
Date: 2025. 6. 28-2025. 7. 24
Curator & Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
The first solo exhibition of the Future Spaces Vision Lab, INVISIBLES, brings together selected works of the lab along with immersive, multi-sensorial interactions to confront visitors with the profound act of being present. Using technology as a medium to reveal the unseen — the interoceptive signals flowing from our bodies, brains, and hearts — the exhibition transforms hidden physiological data into tangible experiences at the intersection of design innovation and neuroscience.
Curated by Prof. Mirna Zordan together with students of the Future Spaces Vision Lab, INVISIBLES showcases student-led experiments alongside speculative research works that merge architecture, neuroscience, and interaction design. The exhibition invites audiences to experience presence as something that can be felt, modulated, and shared.
Triennale Milano 2025
MEDIATING ENVIRONMENTS
Location: Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milan
Date: 2025. 5. 13-2025. 11. 9
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
Triennale Milano organizes international exhibitions every three years, bringing together designers, architects, artists, and collectives to explore a central theme. The 2025 edition, titled "Inequalities," examines global disparities—economic, ethnic, geographic, and gender-based—through installations, exhibitions, and events.
At the invitation of chief curator Prof. Yongqi Lou, SUSTech School of Design joins four leading Chinese institutions—Tongji University, Tsinghua University, and others—in the China Section of Triennale Milano 2025.
Future Space Vision Lab contributed to the theme of Mediated Balancing by Mediating Environments and represented three projects named Minus x Minus = Plus: A Stage for Stress Sharing”, Tell me Concrete Stories and RESPIRA 2.0.
Biennale Architettura 2025
BRAIN-STORM STREAMING
Location: Arsenale, Venice
Date: 2025. 5. 10-2025.11. 23
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition, titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., curated by Carlo Ratti and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. This year’s Exhibition, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., invites different types of intelligence to work together to rethink the built environment.
Prof. Arch. Mirna Zordan and Arch. Freddy Curiél presented their work at the Arsenale venue, featuring the innovative project "BRAIN-STORM STREAMING". This project was developed with the support of students from the Future Spaces Vision Lab and LAPIS BUREAU. Our installation explores the impact of design on human perception and thoughts, creating bridges between neuroscience and architecture through biometric data visualization.
11TH ART SHENZHEN - RESTORE
DIGITAL SPACES FOR BIO-METRIC DATA VISUALIZATION
Location: Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen
Date: 2024.12.5-2024.12.8
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
Art Shenzhen, founded in 2013 as part of the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair, became a contemporary art fair in 2015. It focuses on building a high-quality art market, promoting Shenzhen's contemporary art ecosystem, enhancing public aesthetics, and fostering regional art development. As the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area gains cultural influence, Art Shenzhen continues to champion the concept of "Global Vision, Quality Future," creating an innovative international art platform that reflects Shenzhen's urban diversity.
Future Spaces Vision Lab showcased four projects under "RESTORE," a series utilizing biometric data visualization technology to explore human-environment interactions, aiming to enhance mental well-being and stress management.
CHINESE CHI 2024 - BROKEN
A MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE TO SUPPORT PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL THROUGH STRESS BREAKING
Location: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
Date: 2024.11.22-2024.11.25
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
The Twelfth International Symposium on Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2024), supported by the International Chinese Association for Computer Human Interaction (ICACHI), connects global HCI researchers and practitioners, promoting Human-Computer Interaction within the Chinese community. The theme of Chinese CHI 2024 is "Innovation · Creativity · Integration."
The BROKEN project by Future Spaces Vision Lab was showcased in the Art Gallery section, addressing stress management by enhancing self-efficacy and psychological resilience. BROKEN received the prestigious Rising Star Award at Chinese CHI 2024 for its innovative approach to stress management and public well-being.
Location: Exhibition Hall 4, Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen
Date: 2024.4.27-2024.5.19
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
The 2024 Shenzhen Design Week, organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and the International Council of Design, focuses on "Design Makes Life Better." It includes a global "Design City" roundtable, the "Kunpeng Prize" ceremony, and various brand and sub-venue events. France, as the guest country, will showcase its design leadership.
Future Spaces Vision Lab’s Brain Visions project was showcased at this event. The project explores how high-density urban environments affect the brain using EEG technology, visualizing the impact of architectural stimuli on cognitive load and stress.
ACTIVATION PEBBLEBED 2024 AGM - BRAIN VISIONS
LOOKING AT OUR CITIES WITH BRAINS
Location: Mission District, San Francisco, California
Date: 2024.5.10
Exhibitor: Mirna Zordan
"ACTIVATION PEBBLEBED 2024" is an Annual General Meeting (AGM) event organized by an entity named "Pebblebed." This event showcases engaging works from across the world.
Among the exhibits is "Brain Visions," a Future Spaces Vision Lab project. This interdisciplinary group, based at the SUSTech School of Design in Shenzhen, focuses on intangible human-environment interactions and their influence on stress levels, human perceptions, and brain activity. The project explores how high-density urban environments affect the brain using EEG technology, visualizing the impact of architectural stimuli on cognitive load and stress.