Baddievice. The Baddie's body has to be let into the virtual. The device "Baddievice" enables the senses into the Virtual.

Rooftop. By wearing the headset one can see this big b*&Ah fully alive and constant change.

View from Piazza Garraffello. View of the Mutant-baddie when entering it.

Raving. View showing the use of mixed realities during the rave.

Ballroom. Indoor view of the ballroom, space where the internet skin prosthetics get tested for their later use.

View. View showing the interaction on a building scale of the virtual and real nature of the building itself.

Garden. View of the rooftop garden where the mushrooms are grown in order to produce the mycelium.

3rd floor plan

MArch Architecture|DS 25

BADDIEVERSE

by Filippo Cocca

Name

Filippo Cocca

w1692035@my.westminster.ac.uk

Course

MArch Architecture

The Baddieverse is a "digital place of un-labour" located in the ruin of la Kalsa in Palermo, Italy. Based on Marxist philosopher Mackenzie Wark's recent writings, the Baddieverse aims to subvert the current dynamic where the hacker, the user, seen as data producer, is instrumental to the virtual. Instead, the project proposes a scenario where it is the virtual that is instrumental to the user. In doing so, the Baddieverse offers the Palermo LGBTQ+ community a place of expression and of building of a collective identity. It incorporates topical queer cultural spaces such as the techno raves which, according to Wark, are the cultural space of the digital society, the only cultural space where the digital labour deployed to "put the rave together" subtracts itself from its com modification, in this sense, digital labour becomes "un-labour': an instrument for the community to heal from trauma, taking advantage of the infinite potential of the virtual as means of expression.