Can the metaverse be used as a tool to help us envision and manifest the future of our dreams? Named after the shelter under which the Dogon people of Mali, in West Africa, traditionally gathered to discuss and exchange ideas, TOGUNA World is an ever-expanding laboratory of dreams dedicated to the investigation of the future.
Taking inspiration from the gathering place of the Dogon people of Mali, TOGUNA WORLD is a AR/VR Art installation that serves as a forum for cross-cultural conversation on possible futures. Existing both as a physical and a digital experience, the installation is both an immersive Art installation, a metaverse dream world, a spiritual temple, a dream workshop and a media platform dedicated to the investigation of the future.
Informed by IFA, an ancient divination system from West Africa, and by a series of future workshop organised in 2019 in Kenya as part of the African Crossroad and in Ghana, as part of the Year of Return, it fuses Art, Photography, mixed-media collage, sculpture, film, music, bespoke furniture, ceramic, tapestry and food into a seamless experience, designed to encompass our senses and accelerate our imagination towards the envisioning of more positive and optimistic visions of the future.
Artist: Pierre Christophe Gam
Can the metaverse be used as a tool to help us envision and manifest the future of our dreams? Named after the shelter under which the Dogon people of Mali, in West Africa, traditionally gathered to discuss and exchange ideas, TOGUNA World is an ever-expanding laboratory of dreams dedicated to the investigation of the future.
Taking inspiration from the gathering place of the Dogon people of Mali, TOGUNA WORLD is a AR/VR Art installation that serves as a forum for cross-cultural conversation on possible futures. Existing both as a physical and a digital experience, the installation is both an immersive Art installation, a metaverse dream world, a spiritual temple, a dream workshop and a media platform dedicated to the investigation of the future.
Informed by IFA, an ancient divination system from West Africa, and by a series of future workshop organised in 2019 in Kenya as part of the African Crossroad and in Ghana, as part of the Year of Return, it fuses Art, Photography, mixed-media collage, sculpture, film, music, bespoke furniture, ceramic, tapestry and food into a seamless experience, designed to encompass our senses and accelerate our imagination towards the envisioning of more positive and optimistic visions of the future.
Artist: Pierre Christophe Gam
