Lumus Instruments

For Milan Design Week, .world curated an exhibition and talks program at exploring how contemporary architectural design shapes live experiences, featuring our stage designs for Draaimolen Festival: Aura (2024) and The Tunnel (2023). Both stages emerged from our artistic research project Entropy.

Entropy is an analogue particle simulator exploring transformation and movement in space. The 4-meter transparent structures contain a system that converts liquid into gas, creating formations that resemble clouds and climate systems. Through Entropy, we challenge perceptions of order and control through the aesthetics of disorder, while reflecting on our desire to create systems, rituals and spaces that resist them, even if only temporarily.

That same tension exists within festivals themselves: temporary architectures built for collective moments, only to disappear again.

We’re grateful to see our work included in this dialogue and we can’t wait to share our plans for this year’s edition of .

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The premiere of Our Liminal Space by TLM

For this night TLM asked us to develop a custom light object for the iconic venue of Paradiso. The starting point was the idea of a liminal space: a threshold between states, between stillness and movement, between individual and collective.

This signifier marks the beginning of a shared visual language. We’re excited to continue developing this together.



Our Liminal Space by .is.tlm
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During Contrarium in January, we introduced something new: our first Lumus merch.
A small batch of scarves and T-shirts.

The scarves sold out quickly, but a handful of T-shirts have now made their way to the shop at Nxt Museum ().

If you swing by, take a moment to check out the exhibition as well, featuring POLYNODE XI.

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