Luminous Twilight Street Installation
Type of Project: Concept
When: Spring 2007
For: Parsons School of Design
I have observed social conditions of the sidewalks that are common to the everyday experience of New York City. Using categories from these observations, I conducted probe experiment in which participants documented requested images through disposable cameras. This study has led me to transform the street environment through the design of an installation in places where people linger that will impact New Yorkers by causing them to reflect on shared experience as city dwellers.
The installation reacts to the environment in multiple ways. Each location for the installation would have site-specific text reflecting upon experiences in relation to that location. By using programmable electroluminescent technology, the motif glows and grows as the sun sets and recedes as the sun rises. Although always visible on the site, the installation grows based on darkness, which creates a play on the nighttime experience in New York City, when one is less aware of nature and more aware of urbanity.
inhabit the public
bound by our territories
ask strangers
commute by foot
requests / rules / orders
be a regular
be irregular
enjoy the aroma
linger / go
invitation to the sidewalk
persistent edifice
enjoy the view
public city
pleasure or pain
freedom from the indoors
happiness in artifice
always a line
grand arrival
wait and weight
navigating the sea
brush with danger
construction is inevitable
no privacy
rule breakers / rule followers
withstand the elements
Glow Animation
This animation illustrates (at a faster rate) how the installation would grow as the sun sets and recede as the sun rises.
