• In Town — Los Angeles and environs

“Discovery: a story about rooftops, airships, robots and inflatables” is an installation exploring themes of worldmaking, ecology and artificial intelligence.

Born out of observations of an emerging rooftop culture of urban gardening and alternative lifestyles in downtown LA during the pandemic, the story of Discovery follows The Airborne Collective, a radical environmental hacker group seeking to make a flourishing roofscape ecosystem and unleash hope and optimism in the face of looming ecological threat.

Operating between the languages of design, fashion and video games, the project extends Lifeforms.io work on systems and aesthetics of simulated worlds into the space of a physical installation.