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Feb 2024
37m 53s

Mariana Cabugueira: Design and the Metav...

Ross Lovegrove & Ila Colombo
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It’s becoming difficult to avoid the metaverse. It’s become an inevitability in both the workplace and our social lives, but how can we approach it responsibly? Mariana Cabugueira is an architect in the three dimensional virtual universe. But what does this entail? And what are the ramifications of moving our social and professional lives into a digital world? In the episode of For Love & Design, Mariana breaks down the intricacies of Web 3, the Metaverse and our digital future. 

Mariana, founder of real world and digital architecture studio, MC Studios - speaks to Ross and Ila to discuss the environmental impact of Web 3, its potential to end global loneliness and the desperate need for regulation in order to avoid a similar ‘profit over safety’ situation that we’ve seen with social media. 

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Meta 

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Simon Barazin 

Jodie Spencer 

Lee Cronin on Lex Fridman 

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