innovation space
A space dedicated to innovation as a living, sensitive, and collective experience. Inspired by the vitality and symbolic power of the terreiro, the laboratory invites the public to rethink the very meaning of innovation. Instead of cold technology, it proposes a rooted, welcoming connection. Instead of an abstract future, it offers a common ground. Innovation happens in shared gestures, in the articulation of art, science, memory, and imagination, fueled by the encounter between diverse bodies, knowledge, and territories
bunker for a tropical pixel
From July 2
The Museum of Tomorrow’s Innovation Hub presents Bunker for a Tropical Pixel, an original interactive cinematic game created by Colombian artists Tatyana Zambrano and Hernán Rodríguez.
The work was developed during the Post-natural and Other Ecologies artistic residency, organized by the Museum of Tomorrow in partnership with GLUON and the European S+T+ARTS program. Throughout the residency, the artists expanded a research practice that explores digital worlds as spaces for experimentation, critical reflection, and the creation of possible futures.
In dialogue with the Museum of Tomorrow’s research agenda, Tatyana and Hernán investigated the relationships between biodiversity, climate change, digital technologies, and human and non-human forms of life. This process gave rise to a speculative universe in which nature, technology, and fiction converge to question prevailing models of development, extractive practices, and the impacts of technological infrastructures on territories.
In Bunker for a Tropical Pixel, visitors are invited to explore a post-tropical digital environment shaped by references to visual culture, speculative fiction, ecologies, and technological imaginaries emerging from the Global South. More than a game, the work offers a sensory and narrative experience that reflects on adaptation, survival, and coexistence in a profoundly transformed world.
The installation brings together art, science, and technology while presenting Latin American perspectives on today’s environmental and technological crises.
The partnership between the Museum of Tomorrow and GLUON is grounded in the understanding that challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, extractivism, and the expansion of digital technologies are global in scope, yet manifest in distinct ways across different territories.
ABOUT THE GAME
Bunker for a Tropical Pixel is a game set in a post-tropical future where sunlight has disappeared. To survive, living beings have evolved new ways of producing, storing, and sharing light and energy.
Players control an extremophile biobacterium, a tiny organism capable of thriving in extreme environments such as volcanoes, the deep ocean, and contaminated areas. Within the game's universe, this creature generates its own energy, absorbs both the physical and spiritual forms of light found throughout the environment, and helps sustain living ecosystems.
Throughout the journey, the extremophile travels across three worlds inspired by the RGB color system: green, blue, and red. In each environment, its body adapts to local conditions, developing new traits such as legs, gills, or the ability to fly through encounters with other life forms. These transformations also reshape the gameplay, introducing new ways of interacting with the world.
THE EXPERIENCE
Bunker for a Tropical Pixel combines cinematic sequences, third-person exploration, and meditative challenges. Throughout the game, players are invited to observe their surroundings, solve environmental situations, and maintain the balance between natural and technological organisms. Rather than conquering the worlds they encounter, players are encouraged to cultivate relationships of attentiveness, adaptation, and coexistence.
Approximate duration: 60 minutes.
Age recommendation: 7+
The game is free and open to everyone and is available at bunkerforatropicalpixel.com.
symbolic oones
The area is organized into four symbolic zones:
Earth
The Earth Zone invites us to reconnect with our origins and the territories that shape who we are. Here, the earth is a living organism, a source of innovation and guardian of knowledge linked to the cycles of nature. The installation "Where there is emptiness and nothing, other unknown, invisible forces act—naturally," by Negalê Jones, creates a sensory and symbolic experience. Made of cast iron—extracted from underground and shaped by fire—the work represents the power of the earth to create forms, memories, and futures. Metal towers with Adinkra symbols mark the space, activate sounds, and, with the flow of air, reveal a living landscape where the invisible takes shape
Where there is emptiness and nothingness, other unknown, invisible forces act—naturally Negalê Jones, 2025. Material: Cast iron, electrical and electronic circuit, wood, acrylic, and dehydrated plants. Measurements: 170x35cm. 120x35cm.
Water
The Water Zone is a space where innovation flows like a living river. Here, traditional knowledge and science meet, creating sustainable paths guided by the intelligence of nature. In the documentary game Atuel, a dream river opens up and leads you through liquid landscapes of memory and imagination, inspired by the Atuel River Valley in Argentina. On this surreal journey, nature communicates in other languages: winds tell stories, stones hold memories, and water—always in motion—reveals its purpose within the community
Title: Atuel; Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie; Developer: Matajuegos; Publisher: Matajuegos; Accommodation: up to 3 people per session; Duration: 30 minutes
Air
The Air Zone is a space for creation and contemplation, where different worldviews and technologies meet like balanced winds. Air connects the natural with the artificial—it's an invisible force that circulates, permeates, and transforms everything around it
In Nina da Hora's installation "Winds that Tell," the wind takes shape and language. An interactive LED tree responds to touch and movement, inviting the audience to experience the air as a living entity, charged with memories, messages, and ancestry
Nina da Hora Winds that Count, 2025 The tree, composed of 440 LED modules, is activated by three totems equipped with presence and touch sensors, buttons, and other devices that create a multisensory experience. Development: SupLab
Fire
Zona Fogo is a space for exchange and transformation, an invitation to our audience for conversations, debates, and exchanges with purpose and movement, an invitation to reinvention and the creation of new worlds. In Yawanawá cosmology, fire demands respect and intention—it is not lit without permission. It is a central force, organizing and driving the discussions and ideas that invigorate society. It is a pulsating flame that connects times, territories, and histories in a single flow
