Inspired by the tesseract, a four-dimensional cube this initiative imagines a future where time becomes a key design material. These 4D homes shift with their inhabitants, offering a new way of thinking about space, memory, and care. Take a closer look inside the exhibition. This short video walkthrough introduces the speculative timeline, key artefacts, and the vision behind the Tesseract Home Initiative. Watch from the beginning, but the part I really love is at 3 minutes.
01. The TesserLights
The TesserLight Series includes 11 handcrafted light catchers, each representing a different dimension of home, belonging, memory, adaptability, and more. As light passes through, shadows shift and change, inviting reflection on how home isn’t static, it evolves. These artefacts blur the line between sculpture and experience, symbolising how homes might one day respond to time, mood, and memory.
02. TesserAdobe
The TesserAbode is a 3D model of the imagined 4D home. Inspired by tesseract geometry, this artefact explores the home as a living ecosystem. Its layered structure and light projections reflect how the future home could adapt in response to environmental, emotional, or social needs, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, past and present.
03. Invite & Posters
Extending the Experience, The project invite is a tactile, twist-fold design containing a miniature TesserLight, a keepsake and entry point into the speculative world of the Tesseract Home.
A series of posters visually maps the evolving concept of home through timelines, design fiction, and layered dimensional thinking. Each piece blends graphic storytelling with future speculation, making abstract ideas feel tangible and real.
Why this? Why now?
This project emerged from an urgent question: How might we live, if our homes evolved with us? Developed during the Creative Futures component at MDS, the project became an opportunity to explore speculative design not just as an imaginative exercise, but as a meaningful response to the present. We already see the cracks in existing housing systems. If we don’t rethink how we inhabit the planet now, the idea of ‘home’ may become increasingly out of reach. This initiative plants the seeds of change, offering one possible future grounded in empathy, adaptability, and ecological care.