In keeping with the theme Family Feast, we wanted to create feelings of togetherness and celebration for this installation. In order to evoke this sense of whimsy and wonder we decided to focus on two levels of interaction, a localized flowerbed experience between two people, and a wide spread experience with the rooms visitors.
When visitors enter the room, they have the opportunity to play with buttons on the edge of the flowerbed. Through experimentation the visitors will find that one button activates a set of golden “fireflies”, laid out to enhance the natural beauty of the plants, with soft organic light motion flowing around the bed. The other activates a similar effect, with crimson “fireflies” bringing life to the planter.
Pressing the buttons together will trigger the lights in flowerbed send out a gradient of light projecting out into the direction of cove lights, and a ripple of white light will be sent across the room. it sends the two visitors experience out into the room, and shares the joy of their interaction with the other guests. This ripple reverberates across the room, alerting visitors to the presence of others and inspiring that feeling of warm fellowship
Our project encourages fluid movement through the room, the placement of the flowerbed interactions in either corner and motion of the ripple forward encourages visitors to move forward.
