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Lightsounds:

A Reactive Installation for N1 Shopping Centre

London 2004
Delancey and Metro Shopping Fund

   
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"d-squared met our brief with an innovative, unusual installation which has created  a point of difference to a mainstream retail environment. They delivered what they promised, on time and to a very high standard."

Steve Burgin
Retail Asset Management Director, Delancey


 

 

The installation is designed to operate in a quiet zone of a shopping centre. The space is in constant but sporadic use 24 hours a day, when bars, the club or the cinema open and close, fill and empty.

The proposal is to enliven areas of the shopping centre with an interactive installation registering the presence of shoppers with a changing display of light and sound. Passers by trigger light and sound sequences depending on their numbers and behaviour, creating a reflective mood, like passing through an abstracted electronic garden. The installation has a generative structure which continually renews itself; every new visitor triggers a different sequence of light, colour and constellation of sounds.

In collaboration with Rolf Gehlhaar