Space Popular is a research driven architecture, design, and media studio that explores the future of spatial experience through virtual reality, film, exhibitions, speculative writing, as well as buildings and objects. Space Popular is directed by Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg. Space Popular: The Portal Galleries is a historical study of the magical portal in mainstream media. The Portal Galleries archive is composed of over 900 portals found in fantasy and fiction books, films, graphic novels, and games. A new Immersive film by SPACE POPULAR’S Lara Lesmes and
Fredrik Hellberg exploring the future of virtual togetherness in the home ![]() Enter the Metaverse. Cover designed by Space Popular for the Metaverse issue of Metropolis Magazine JAN/FEB 2022 Space Popular proposes a "civic infrastructure for virtual teleportation" to help people navigate the metaverse. Space Popular's upcoming exhbition at the Sir John Soane Museum in London explores the history and future of the magics and mechanics of virtual travel. Opens 29th of June 2022 Space Populars film and virtual experience Camera Balla is a poem about the work of Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla and the future of representation. VIRTUAL SPACES Arquia Proxima. 2020 Freestyle Online. 2020. LINK TO SPACE AA Earth Gallery. 2020. LINK TO SPACE The Venn Room - Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019 The Wardian Case - Palazzo Reale Milano 2019 Value in the Virtual - ArkDes Stockholm Sweden - 2018 | Livet på Bergs - Stockholm Sweden - 2015 The Timber Hearth - 16th Venice Biennale - 2018 Träbågen, Skellefteå Culture Center - 2016 Örebro Water Resevoir - 2016 The House of Fairytales - Odense, Denmark - 2013 | Value in the Virtual - ArkDes Stockholm Sweden - 2018 The Wardian Case - Palazzo Reale Milano 2019 The Glass Chain - Sto WerkStatt London UK - 2017 How I Started Hanging out with Home - Magazin, Vienna Austria - 2018 Infinity Spa - Bangkok Thailand - 2016 MAK Montessori - Valencia Spain - 2014 |