Indivicracy —
Tale of a Future Government 

Design Museum London, 2015/16

As Designer in Residence at the Design Museum London, Alexa developed an interactive installation including artefacts, masks and costumes introducing Museum audiences to a fictional evolution of democracy to accomodate our ever more migratory life-style. 

Collaborators on the project:
Oliver Wrobel – Graphic Design
Nikolaus Völzow – Software Developer
Hiroki Yokoyama – Video Edit
Paul Steinmann – Music
Omar Barchetta – Camera
Didy Veldman – Choreography
Sakeema Peng Crook, Jemima Brown,
Mari Ishida, Antony daly Luna – Dancers
Bine Roth –  Artefacts 3D Modelling
Kathryn Fleming - Falcon 

Indivicracy – Tale of a Future Government is a Design Fiction, telling the history of a future nation: diverged from settled existence, its citizens are constantly on the move and non-territorial, linked merely by a governmental network following them around the globe and across borders.

For the show at the Design Museum, cultural highlights such as their national dance and dress are designed to help imagine the evolution of this alternative form of existence. Displayed as if on show in a museum for cultural history, the dance as well as some artefacts suggest a series of future historical events and draw a timeline explaining the formation of a government titled Indivicracy.


Instead of naming a country, members of an Indivicracy base everything on the coordinate system, stressing non-territoriality as major ideal. National dances are moments of communal celebration, they tell of the social structures and habits of a community and in addition to the display of the artefacts, an interactive installation asks visitors to learn the national dance.



Visitors interact with four characters – cultural stereotypes who represent the variety of reasons for people to migrate.

The Project was based on a graphic novel and concept started during Alexa’s time in the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art.