Personal Space

Curator Attilia Fattori Franchini explains how making friends on the internet transformed the way artists communicate. Postler Ferguson – a London-based design studio working in products, spaces and strategy – make cleverly simple structures often influenced by some technological or scientific concept. Their latest series Personal Space fast forwards to the future, to the world of ubiquitous and luxurious private space travel where elegant travellers want stylish products surrounding them for their stay.

Postler Ferguson have created a series of future interior fittings for space stations that appeal to our differing sensory experiences in the extreme environments of outer space. The fittings elegantly provide light, heat, air and cooking facilities to bring the comfort of earth to the orbiting beings above. As Virgin Galactic is finally meant to launch later this year, design for space tourism will become increasingly important. This curious mixture of domestic and science-based design has also been explored by Alex Duffner through his Domestic Science Machines.
Franchini


Attilia Fattori Franchini is a London based curator who works with young and emerging artists. She is a co-founder of www.bubblebyte.org, which from 2011-2013 operated as an online gallery showcasing artists whose work existed within a digital space; since 2013 the initiative has instead performed a series of specialised interventions into other, preexisting websites. She also curates The Basement at Paradise Row gallery.
Tom Anderson


In 2003 Tom Anderson cofounded MySpace (now Myspace) with his business partner Chris DeWolfe. The site arguably popularised the use of social networks with the general public; between 2005 and 2008 it was the most visited website of its type in the world. Anderson was no longer in charge of MySpace at this point, having already sold the concern to Rupert Murdoch, though remained at the company until 2009. The biography on his personal website now claims that he is “[r]etired and traveling the world taking photos.” He was publicly vilified in 2012 for retorting to one of his Twitter followers that he was the “guy who sold myspace in 2005 for $580 million while you slave away hoping for a half-day off.” Not so friendly after all.