Architecture in the Digital Age: Immersive “Meet Me Here” Exhibit 2025

Prime Highlights

Spacon & X’s “Meet Me Here” installation reimagines DAC’s staircase as a riveting, multisensory experience redefining physical presence.
The installation delves into the workability of architecture in rebuffing digital saturation and creating real-life human connections.

Key Facts

Exhibition Dates: June 18, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Venue: Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen

Key Background

“Meet Me Here,” a groundbreaking installation by Danish Architecture Center, dares visitors to consider how architecture can reclaim bodily and affective presence in a saturated digital world. Created by Copenhagen-based studio Spacon & X, the installation transforms DAC’s sleek Gallery Stairs with five distinct landings.

Each level has interactive, sensorial elements—tactile surfaces, ambient sound, and visual installations. These elements encourage people to be more present in the world they’re in and to one another. It is about distracting folks from digital technology and shifting focus to communal experiences in physical space, literally using architecture as a vehicle of meaningful interaction.

The programme makes comparisons between the actions of regular online activity, including liking, scrolling, and swiping, and their material counterparts. Visitors are invited to pass handwritten notes, engage in unplanned conversation, or merely stand there and look. Such body-reinforced redescriptions of online activity produce a sense of deeper engagement and familiarity, underpinning the exhibition as a whole: presence has to be lived, rather than streamed.

Completed as one of the city’s more ambitious cultural design initiatives, “Meet Me Here” is both a reflection on life today and a piece of art in response to isolation and disconnection brought about by too much screen time. The utilization of space as an activator instead of background recontextualizes architecture as a force strong enough to generate human connection.

Spacon & X, utilizing material-based and interdisciplinary design thinking, partnered with the Danish Architecture Center and main cultural partners to create this new vision. ADP Bench, or “Adults Don’t Play” bench, is also an element of the exhibition that defies traditional norms of passivity in public spaces through the invitation of children’s-like playfulness and activity in transitional spaces.

“Meet Me Here” finally redefine our relationship with built environments, providing a stark reminder that architecture can—and should—invite us to live in the moment.