# SOMA

> Where the body ends and the object begins, the boundary dissolves

**Year**: 2025
**Type**: academic
**Entity**: UTDT / LED / DGC
**Industry**: Education / Fashion
**Role**: Designer

## Abstract
SOMA explores the blurred threshold between body and object. A seat that remembers the curve of a spine. A ring that frames an ear. A glass that folds into the grip of a hand. The objects that surround us are invisible molds of the human body — and the body, in turn, is shaped by what it touches.

The project assembles a heterogeneous collection — jewelry, garments, furniture, graphic pieces, publications — all working with the counterform of the body at different scales. Some objects contain the body physically; others register it symbolically, as a graphic echo. From this duality, a brand identity emerges: an organic form wrapping industrial type, rigid and soft coexisting in adaptive symbiosis. The system extends into three dimensions through an itinerant volumetric structure — high-density foam supports where visitors can lean, rest, and leave their imprint. After the exhibition, SOMA becomes a fiesta: the body no longer interacting with matter, but with other bodies. Everything is body.

## Capabilities
Brand Design, Art Direction, Spatial Design, Research

## Credits
- Design: Julián Leiss, Bautista Ausqui, Constanza Caba
- Tutors: Laura Escobar, Lucrecia Landin, Pablo Veron, Martín Legón

## Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLhg-P4PuGY

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