The Parklands, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, has played host to Lightwave, a sensory light installation at the Unlimited festival. At 10m x 16m x 5.5m, Lightwave is not just a sculpture or an art piece, but an object that can be interacted with, like a large animated toy or hybrid living creature—glowing and pulsing by the river. The design by AnL Studio was intended to provoke conversations about using contemporary parks as a performative public space. By offering a new and unexpected experience between people and the object (displayed art), or between nature and the (artificial) object, Lightwave responds in a purposefully dynamic and playful way, engaging and inviting public participation. The object is responsive to the new environment, therefore generating a new pattern into the place and time.  More explanation and photographs of Lightwave following the break.

Architects: AnL Studio
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Project Architects: Keehyun Ahn and Minsoo Lee
Prototyping Design/Interactive Consultant : Rory Nugent, Andy Doro
Project Management: Laing O’Rourke, Byte Logic
Curator: Creativesight, Hassell
Electrical Engineers and Lighting/Interactive Consultants: Webb Australia
Structural engineer: OPUS
Cost Planning: Mitchell Brandtman
Building Certification: Certis
Surveying: LandPartners
Construction and Construction Management: Laing O’Rourke
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of AnL Studio
Interactive Fabrication: Watthouse, Zenith, Xenian, CTI, Imaginus
Fabrication: Flow Force, Heyday
Landscaping: Dig It, South Bank Corporation,
Concrete Supply: Boral