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Hank Beyer Designs For A Dystopian Future

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At the intersection of furniture design and technology sits the work of Cincinnati designer Hank Beyer. In his speculative fiction ‘Caravanserai,’ Beyer takes technology and reinvents it with his minimal, sculptural eye. This ongoing project offers up a dystopian future — Beyer explains, “In Caravanserai there exist no true urban centers. As the world’s resources became depleted, sparse and difficult to continuously extract, humanity sought space and spread. Technology exists in an entirely new way.” In the world Beyer has imagined, the technological means for communication have been…

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