delusional souvenirs

a postcard generator

Delusional Souvenirs is an interactive experience that questions the dissonance between tourist imagery and the environmental reality of the climate crisis.

Visitors are invited to select a postcard depicting idealized Alpine landscapes. The cartoon content of these maps is generated from the results of search engine algorithms, and from texts produced by an LLM (large language model).When the map is selected, the user can hear electromagnetic waves interfering with the visual device.

As the interaction progresses, the image slowly fades, revealing marks of decay and an increasingly abstract landscape.

The text is transformed, giving way to scientific facts reported by the IPCC on the urgency of climate change. Once the degradation is complete, the map is printed.

The installation is a metaphor for its own message, destroying the misleading image it disseminates. The user, now a tourist, faces up to the destruction of his environment, confronts the facts, and becomes the bearer of a tangible trace of his passage, becoming in turn the messenger of this illusory memory.

This project is part of a committed design approach, using interactivity as a means of raising awareness and mobilizing against climate change.

In our common practice, we express our vision of a resolutely committed design, carrying political and social values. As designers, we affirm our responsibility in the face of issues of social justice, ecology and the fight against all forms of discrimination.

We firmly believe that design is not limited to aesthetics, but that it has a transformative force, capable of awakening consciences and provoking deep reflections in those who confront it. We believe that design is built in interaction with the places, issues and audiences it challenges.

We welcome the prospect of collaborations, exhibitions, residencies or project mandates.
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