Design
College Festival Installation
An immersive, participatory installation presented during a festival at my sharehouse. Developed across two iterations, Words and Space, the project explored how people shape and are shaped by their surroundings. A study room was transformed with fabric, mirrors, projection mapping, light, and sound into an environment that invited visitors to step out of the ordinary and move through the space slowly, reflectively, and together.
Rather than telling a fixed story, the installation worked as an open system of fragments, hanging texts, scattered papers, light trails, and a suspended heart-like form. Visitors were invited to read, write, observe, and leave traces of themselves behind, turning the work into a shared space for dialogue, awareness, and renewed connection to the community.
- Role
- Concept development, spatial design, visual direction, decoration
- Format
- Immersive participatory installation
- Year
- 2024
Process
The installation began through rough sketches that tested circulation, focal points, and emotional density. These drawings mapped how hanging materials, projected text, a central object, and surrounding fragments could shape movement through the room and guide visitors into different modes of attention.
Building the Space
Fabric, string, suspended papers, mirrors, and light sources were layered into the room to break the sense of ordinary scale and create a floating, unstable environment. The suspended heart became the central anchor, both visually and emotionally, while the surrounding materials extended outward like thoughts, veins, and traces of speech.
Words
In the Words iteration, language became something spatial and bodily. Projected phrases, hanging text, written responses, and printed statements moved through the room as if words themselves were circulating. Visitors were invited to encounter language not only as meaning, but as atmosphere, pressure, memory, and relation.
Space
The second iteration shifted toward Space, focusing on the room as a shared environment continually shaped by people, memory, and occupation. The installation asked how an individual inhabits a place, and how that place quietly inhabits the individual in return.
Participation
The installation also opened outward through participation. Visitors wrote responses, moved through the suspended environment, and contributed their own reflections, while a smaller interactive setup invited playful construction and communal engagement. These gestures extended the work beyond viewing, allowing the space to be shaped by those passing through it.
