Project Area is where you’ll find state-of-the-art technology, innovative design, radical thinking, and cutting-edge research side-by-side in the heart of Sónar by Day. Whether you’re an artist or researcher, or just curious, it’s where you can test-drive, experiment with, and play with future technologies.

This year you’ll find biology alongside AI, sound tech next to exhibits that reflect on the side-effects of hyperconnectivity or the ongoing ecological crisis, and works that explore possible futures. That’s we’ve organised the 70+ projects into nine different themed spaces to help you navigate easily: AI & Music; AI + Creativity; Exhaustion, Depletion, Burnout; Music Tech; Natural Networks; Quantum Echoes; Realities+D; Systems of Care; and Worlds to come.