A descendant of migrants and anti-fascist resistors brings their memory to the metaverse
You can have a virtual home in Hangars Liquides, the massive and awesome cyberpunk city in Second Life which boasts a skyline of skyscrapers before which Oprah Winfrey once gave a speech, and William Gibson himself once praised. But why pay to live in a well-appointed penthouse of a dystopian future, when you can live in a tent from our near-dystopian present?
Click here to visit, and if you like, find a free place for your avatar to squat, in Hangars Liquides’ new homeless encampment.
“I know there are quite a few wanderers in SL that like to go around, so they could have a little spot in a place that is community-oriented to get together and talk and just have simple good times,” Hangars creator Djehan Kidd tells me. “And of course I hope people will reflect on the subjects of current homelessness and migration crisis.”
Djehan spent many days creating the camp, not only making sure it worked as an immersive space, but that it evoked the homeless camps that have sprouted up across the real world in recent years:
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