Worlds We Carry

Worlds We Carry is an interactive installation that asks us to dream boldly about what we should carry into our shared future. It was exhibited at the Oculus World Trade Center as part of the NYC Public Interest Technology Pop-Up.

Participants are invited to map the places that matter to them – from corner parks to neighborhood restaurants – and share what gives these spaces meaning. Each pin contributes to a collective topography: a shared reflection on the elements of our world worth preserving, physically and emotionally.

Framed through the metaphor of space travel, the project asks: if we were to leave Earth, what would we bring with us? Which places, memories, and atmospheres would we carry into imagined new worlds? This is a meditation on fragility, value, and care: in the face of change, what deserves our attention, our preservation, our love?

By combining mapping technologies with participatory storytelling, the project creates an evolving constellation of memory, longing, and imagination – a human atlas of what makes life on Earth worth treasuring.

In collaboration with Aurelie Barbier and Space to the People