Extended Realities: Dreaming as a Design Framework explores immersive experiences through the nature of dreams: spatial, sensorial, and collectively inhabited states where meaning emerges through presence rather than explanation. The talk introduces the real three-body problem of extended realities, centered on the ongoing negotiation between the physical human body and its virtual or extended counterpart, shaped through performative action and attention. Dreaming is proposed as a narrative design framework for XR—one that understands immersive experiences as lived and remembered states, carried forward through memory and shared perception.

About the Speaker:

María Laura Ruggiero is an Argentine filmmaker and immersive narrative designer whose work explores the nature of reality through extended and hybrid media. She is a PhD researcher in Immersive Design at the University of Buenos Aires, focusing on perception, presence, and the habitability of extended realities.She has presented and taught internationally at institutions and festivals including MIT Reality Hack, Berlinale Talents, SXSW, and MUTEK, and is the founder of SeirenFilms and StoryHackers Lab, platforms dedicated to research-driven experiential storytelling from a Global South perspective. She recently opened LÚCIDA, a new research and exploration space in Buenos Aires, developed collaboratively as a platform for experimentation across art, science, and technology.