Three translucent, amphibian-like creatures appear in a damp, tile-lined room inside an abandoned military hospital in Milan. The installation, MEUW (Socius novus), is presented during Milan Design Week 2026 as part of a group show focused on animal interiors. The work is positioned among multiple projects that use fables as speculative tools to rethink relationships between humans, animals, and environments. Across projects involving pigeons, dogs, rats, and frogs, the aim is to materialize non-anthropocentric paradigms where animals can thrive, imagine, dance, and dwell. The display raises questions about what initiates and limits human-animal bonds.
"Three squishy, vaguely amphibian creatures appeared in dank, tile-lined room in the abandoned Baggio Military Hospital in Milan. Softly illuminated by the warm glow of overhead spotlights, the near translucent critters looked as though they had been newly discovered in this little corner of Alcova's eclectic exhibition on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026."
"This is the work of 'MEUW (Socius novus)', a project by Jaemo Lee and Lisa Schober that was exhibited as part of HEAD -Genève's Master in Interior Architecture (MAIA) group show, 'No One Sees Them Like We Do. Notes on Animal Interiors'. In the soft lumps and slick surface, their display puts into question what are the instigators and limits of human-animal bonds."
"Meuw sits among six projects that were developed to, ' give rise to as many spatial narratives, each grounded in a fable understood as a speculative tool for rethinking relationships between humans, animals, and environments.' In each of the works, which span pigeons, dogs, rats, and frogs, the students materialize a non-anthropocentric paradigm for these creatures to thrive, imagine, dance, and dwell in."
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