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SPARK

During winter in London, the city gets dark at 4pm. This causes  winter blues or seasonal sadness  for many people, linked to a lack of sunlight.

 

SPARK is a proposed installation in London during these dark months designed to hide a  fun interactive light display  in  empty storefront windows  for city-dwellers. The goal?  Bring a spark of joy into the daily commute.  

Full responsibilities for this project included concept, basic prototyping, experience design, participant testing, coding, setup, presentation, filming, and video-editing. 

Interaction
Coding
Projection

SPARK uses hand tracking technology and a rear-projection screen to allow the viewer to control the installation, giving them a sense of empowerment and upliftment.

See the experience on your laptop here! 

The interaction is designed to make participants feel surprised and joyful through the journey of interaction

SPARK  is aimed at commuters and uni students travelling home. These are the people most likely to be affected by the winter blues, and usually those that are the most stressed. This is purposefully broad because public art never has a controlled audience.

The intallation would be active between 4-8 PM on weekdays, the cross-section between when it gets dark in London in the winter and when commuters and students are travelling home. Limiting the time for the installation to run also minimises energy usage as well as light pollution, since some of the installation locations may be near residential areas.

See some of my process and how I work behind the scenes here!