proto:meet is the kickoff of a three-day design event hosted by the M.A. Design for Digital Futures (The Ohm), in collaboration with DESIGNVEREIN and ‘Boutique Plastique’, at the Space Between. 

Whether it’s 3D animation, VFX, generative design, VR, AR, scripting, scanning, or real-time tools like Blender, Houdini, Unreal, and TouchDesigner — you’re in the right place. Let’s stop rendering in isolation: come meet others who understand your file-naming chaos and GPU pains. Ask questions and get advice or even show your own project on our open beamers – no stage, no pressure.

proto is a prefix meaning first, original, or precursor to something. It’s what comes before everything else takes shape. It is a way of thinking about things in motion: identities, tools, and norms, and how we navigate the evolving relationships we form with them.

From the first tool carved from stone to today’s digital interfaces, technology has always been more than an artifact: a mirror, extension, language, and sometimes, paradox. With proto we open a space for what is still forming, a gesture toward futures that are unfinished, unknowable, and yet: unfolding. 

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