The Mauhaus was my Bauhaus for the metaverse. I read the metaverse as the skin of the world, a successor to writing, and I wanted a design school for it. It's also where I defined the sensome.
How the word moved
It has one sense. I launched it in October 2021 with M1: The Mauhaus Project, and yes, the pun was the point.
In my words
"What does the sensome have to do with the Metaverse?"
from M1: The Mauhaus Project, 19 Oct 2021
Related
- Related Sensome - I defined it in the Mauhaus essay.
- Related Interverse - the humanist counterpart to the metaverse, a month later.
- Related Concept Worlds - same series.
Still open
Looking back, the metaverse season of 2021-22 was a hype cycle. By 2023 I was writing that AI showed up barely a year after the metaverse was hot.