Fourth Spaces is a web-based interactive dictionary presenting 3D models made using Scaniverse, a free smartphone photogrammetry application. Photogrammetry applications translate the physical world into digital models by using a mobile phone to scan objects or environments.
The results are broken, glitched, and incomplete representations that highlight the limitations of our tools and the ephemeral nature of memory. This imagery evokes a "fourth space": a realm between the physical and the digital, in which the scans forget and resist the physical world, while breathing life into and embodying the opportunities of digital spaces.
This iteration of the project contains four scans taken in Boston between 2024 and 2026. Each interactive image is paired with a vocabulary word and a visual distortion that illustrates the evolving material language of Fourth Spaces.
Thank you to Sheng-Hung Lee, Isidore Lee Hodara, and the Northeastern faculty club Futuring Lens-Based Practices (Julia Hechtman).