"HOW CAN LIGHTING AND DIGITAL MEDIA WORK ACROSS DIFFERENT SCALES – FROM MOBILE PHONES TO SKYSCRAPER’S MEDIA FACADES – TO TELL LOCAL, PERSONAL STORIES WITHIN A VERY LARGE METROPOLIS?"
Using the unique lighting displays in the office of StrongLED, our team was tasked to design a digital installation to help encourage connections with the people and their surroundings inspired by our few days in Shanghai, China. With a 10 day deadline, we divided into small groups to ideate, collaborate and work to develop our concepts to showcase at the exhibition being held in the StrongLED building.
In China, the moon represents wishes for reunion and nostalgia. Our concept ‘Messages to the Moon’ is inspired by the importance of reunion for people in China and the world, and we hope to help bring people together through sending messages...
In a new and developed city such as Shanghai where the environment is fast paced and bussling with locals, workers and tourists we wanted to come up with a way where people can take a second to send a message which would be directed to their loved ones. Our final concept allows users of whatever background to be able to send a message to the large crescent moon which would be projected on a large facade. The moon which would initally be only a small crescent fills up as people send their messages to eventually become full and explode revealing each of the users messages which then floats down to the bottom. Our digital facade was coded entirely with p5.js.
The initial concept involved users being able to send messages via phone or console and the message being displayed on the screen before entering the moon. We have however changed this aspect from sending text to emojis for the prototype version. The installation is designed to have the messages be displayed like that of WeChat where each message will be part of a conversation made by the previous user in hopes to bring people together and share their feelings of missing their loved ones.
