This year’s Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan featured tactile objects designed as physical representations of emotions, beliefs and even galactic phenomena. The Advanced Relics exhibition by the Dutch Invertuals collective was curated by Wendy Plomp, and featured a group of nine selected designers who explored topics they felt reflective of today’s society. In each of their projects, the designers aimed to manifest an idea, a feeling, or a situation – all things that can’t be touched – as a physical item. The objective was to counteract the increasingly digital, and therefore untouchable, world we live in.