Museum of the Future Dubai, UAE 2016
Commissioned by Prime Minister’s Office, UAE

A sequence of immersive environments unfolds as visitors move through the exhibition, shifting in scale, material, and atmosphere. Architecture, interaction, and speculation merge, creating spaces that feel less like galleries and more like inhabitable propositions—glimpses into possible futures shaped by technology and human behavior.

Museum of the Future was presented at the World Government Summit in Dubai as a multi-zoned exhibition exploring the theme of Machinic Life. The exhibition brings together interactive and experiential works developed by a collaborative team led by Tellart, with contributions from Marshmallow Laser Feast, LUST, Idee und Klang, and others. Architecture operates not as container, but as a framework that amplifies and choreographs each experience.

Interior design is treated as an active narrative device. Each zone is shaped to heighten the perceptual and conceptual impact of the work it houses, using form, material, and light to reinforce its themes. Movement through the exhibition becomes a form of sequencing, guiding visitors from one speculative condition to the next.

One environment takes the form of a tensile spatial system that suspends imagined products from the future, its lightweight geometry suggesting adaptability and instability. Another is clad in crystalline surfaces that fragment and multiply reflections of a central interactive LED column, collapsing object, architecture, and data into a single luminous field.

Throughout the exhibition, architecture blurs boundaries between physical and digital space. Reflective and refractive surfaces allow content to spill into the environment, shaping perception through light, motion, and proximity rather than static display.

By treating architecture as an extension of interaction and storytelling, Museum of the Future presents Machinic Life as something spatial and immediate. Visitors move through speculative environments where technology, material, and perception are tightly intertwined—invited not just to observe possible futures, but to inhabit them.