(Archive) Virtual Creative Hubs

How can we help creatives to expand beyond the physical limitations and partake in another technolog

With the continuous development of the digitalized world, another spectrum of opportunities opens up in front of the creative industry. Purely physical locations, hosting artists, makers and other creatives can be extended in the virtual world more than ever before with the use of tools such as virtual reality or the metaverse. Virtual Creative Hubs, allow people to communicate, co-create or sell their work or services, on the whole, another level, without spatial, geographical or cultural limitations. What does architecture for the metaverse look like? How is it different from physical structures? What functions we can offer to creatives to raise the quality of their workday? How can virtual reality be used not to just experience these spaces but also to create them? These are some of the questions we ask the students who had taken on the challenge of designing their virtual creative hubs, in teams of 4. The result is a set of 4 completely different virtual worlds, accessible with a VR headset, a computer, or a mobile device, presenting their interpretations of the term.