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Canadian artist, novelist and national treasure Douglas Coupland teamed up with London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) for his Handmade project, producing a ‘forest’ of sex toys at the school’s recently opened Digital Prototyping Laboratory. We caught up with Coupland and the AA’s director, Eva Franch i Gilabert, over FaceTime, about their collaboration, 3D-printing and the future of design.

Wallpaper*: Why was the AA interested in collaborating with Douglas Coupland?

Douglas goes between different mediums to examine our present. At the same time, he looks to the future and understands that space of optimism, but also all the consequences of not imagining that future. These are the ingredients