Imagine you open your window and jump inside a net constructed between houses in your backyard for a sun-bath or visit a public space and take your shoes off to crawl in a tape installation.
The group started as a team of industrial designers—all having been keen experience and interest in experimental design. Since 2004 their focus expanded into large scale events and then by the year 2008, they began to emphasize on more hybrid and experiential constructions. Their approach is to serve people by doing things that they could use and bu ultimately giving their works some sort of function.
The Tape installation received the International Design Festival in Berlin in December of 2010.
Numen collectivity has also constructed a “net” experience of perception, spatial and perspective with a community hammock. A creation of a “floating landscape,” it's accessible to visitors to climb in and explore. This forest of huge nets gave Numen the possibility to play with different shapes and sizes, using them in different ways, so as to be accessible and approachable as can with the crowd.
Their first effort to connect their fantastical architectural settings with theatrical play was The Inferno from the classic Divine Comedy by Dante. They covered the space with glass mirrors, inciting the possibility to look inside the actors, who in contrary could not see the exterior, as their side was covered with spy glass to experiment with their own multiplied image (see image below). The cold, sterile infinity gave an interpretation of the hell. They could not escape from themselves and everywhere they looked was a mirage of them.
Have a watch at this interesting interview (featured right) as well as some photos to take an idea of their unique constructions of avant garde mixed with play.
