Symbiosis — Children of Compost

SYMBIOSIS is a performative, multi-user, multi-sensory VR experience by the Dutch collective Polymorf: six participants at a time, 45 minutes, with haptic suits, scent and taste becoming part of the story. Each participant embodies a post-human symbiont: a human–animal or human–machine hybrid.

As 3D Lead Designer I spent about a year working on the design of its world: creatures, characters and environments. The Children of Compost are one of its species, a future human lineage born from fusion with insects.

SYMBIOSIS premiered at IDFA DocLab 2021 at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, where it won the Special Jury Award for Creative Technology, and was then presented at the Holland Festival 2022, in Portland (PAM CUT, US premiere) and at SXSW 2023.