Future Sketches is excited to welcome Studio Lemercier (Juliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier) to the Media Lab.
Juliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier crossed the Atlantic in March 2026 aboard a sail cargo vessel, slowly traveling for two weeks from France to New York without flying — a deliberate choice made in response to the environmental cost of air travel. A series of works has been made on board, in direct response to the physical experience of wind, waves, storm and swell, ever-changing light, shadows and reflections, transcribing moments of the ocean into thousands of ink drops and pixels.
At sea, you cannot trust data, even on a high-tech vessel full of sensors. You must observe reality. This journey was a wonderful context to question our growing tendency to use technology to sense the world rather than experience it directly: all the computing power in the world will never be sufficient to model a single drop of water.
They believe the future should not rely on robots and datasets as these fragile systems feel more like disposable gadgets than a serious roadmap for the future. Through their studio works and the Solar Lab, their goal is to share a critical understanding of technology and to propose desirable alternatives.