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Context & experience
A two-stage educational journey into the language of virtual reality, beginning with the Venice Biennale VR College residency and continuing through industry pitching during the Venice Biennale Film Festival.
My VR concept exploring electronic waste landscapes was selected for the Immersive College programme, where it entered an intensive process of mentoring, development and experimentation. The residency provided a space to rethink the project not only as an idea, but as an embodied experience shaped by space, movement and perception.
Learning focus
This experience functioned as a hands-on education in immersive storytelling.
The process allowed me to:
☀︎ Explore how narrative must adapt when the viewer becomes a spatial participant
☀︎ Understand the relationship between body, orientation and emotional response in VR
☀︎ Learn the technical, production and logistical realities behind immersive creation
☀︎ Translate an intuitive concept into a structured experience ready for professional pitching
Process & evolution
Through guided workshops, feedback sessions and iterative development, the project gradually transformed from a conceptual vision into a clearly defined immersive narrative with an articulated production plan.
Presenting the project during the Venice Biennale Film Festival introduced it to the professional VR ecosystem and exposed it to critical industry perspectives, grounding the artistic idea in real-world constraints and opportunities.
Personal insight
This experience became a turning point in my relationship with VR.
It revealed both the poetic potential and the structural limitations of immersive technology from its power to generate deep presence to the economic and technical barriers that shape what can realistically be created.
Most importantly, it planted a lasting seed for the further development of the project, shifting my perspective from fascination with the medium toward a more mature understanding of VR as a language that must be consciously designed, ethically considered and carefully produced.