Feature Installation for IDS18’s Digital Installation Lab, conceived and designed with Design Workshop Architects.
Interior Design Show, 2018, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
How Bright is Our Future? asks the public how they feel about emerging technologies, where their fears and hopes lie, and what our place in this new world will be.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is already here. Technologies formerly found only in the realm of science fiction are now part of our daily lives or wait just over the horizon of the very near future. Each of these new technologies has the potential for great good or unintended negative consequences.
This installation was conceived in collaboration with Michael Donaldson of DWA for the 2018 Interior Design Show in Toronto; one of four feature installations to support the future-forward theme of their 20th anniversary show. Visitors entered a dark space and encountered five tall, blade-shaped structures, each glowing to light the space. Printed on each of these ‘blades’ are ten statements, each from a category of technology or study that will be critical in the formation of the future of our society. The statements are different on each blade, but the categories are the same. We invited visitors to react to each statement with a touch to the triangular buttons on either side of the text. Does the statement inspire fear, or does it inspire hope?
Awards:
Winner, Excellent Architecture: Fair & Exhibition, German Design Awards 2020
Honorable Mention, Interior Design: Exhibits, Pavilions and Exhibitions, 12th International Design Awards 2019
Best Exhibit: 21st Annual Best Of Canada Design Competition, Canadian Interiors, 2018
Special Mention: Architecture+Art, Architizer Award, 2018