STUDIO ROOSEGAARDE GIVES LIFE TO HUNDREDS OF FLOWERS
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Right in the center of an invisible circle between London, Paris and Brussels,
the city of Lille’s heart is sure
to pound throughout the Lille3000 FANTASTIC 2012 festival. The festival curated
by Caroline David, will host
hundreds of events and numerous exhibitions. ' Metamorphoses in public space ' is one chapter of this art
celebration where twenty different international artists have
created memorable installations. The LOTUS
DOME by Dutch artist and
architect Daan Roosegaarde is one of them.
The LOTUS DOME is made out of hundreds aluminum folded flowers which unfold in response to human behavior. Positioned in the shadowy interior of the Sainte Marie Madeleine Church, the flower leaves remain motionless, that is up until a visitor approaches. Initially, they open up one after the other, letting their light glow from inside. This motion multiplies; as more and more viewers come closer and the ‘organism’ that is the large silver dome takes on a more dynamic form. As they walk around it, the light of the invisible, almost living creature, breathing in and out, obediently follows them around, casting intricate reflections around the dark church’s walls.
The question we have to ask then, is: Are you still wondering where the heart of Lille will be beating right through to the 13th of January, 2013?
The LOTUS DOME is made out of hundreds aluminum folded flowers which unfold in response to human behavior. Positioned in the shadowy interior of the Sainte Marie Madeleine Church, the flower leaves remain motionless, that is up until a visitor approaches. Initially, they open up one after the other, letting their light glow from inside. This motion multiplies; as more and more viewers come closer and the ‘organism’ that is the large silver dome takes on a more dynamic form. As they walk around it, the light of the invisible, almost living creature, breathing in and out, obediently follows them around, casting intricate reflections around the dark church’s walls.
The question we have to ask then, is: Are you still wondering where the heart of Lille will be beating right through to the 13th of January, 2013?
‘’ In a world moving from analog to digital, I am interested in
what happens when technology intrudingly leaps out of a the computer screen
onto our walls and into our bodies and urban landscapes to create
poetry…….where physical space becomes immaterial. ‘’
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DAAN ROOSEGAARDE
Artist and innovator
Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is internationally known for creating
social designs that
explore the relation between people, technology and space. His
Studio Roosegaarde
is the social design lab with his team of designers and
engineers based in
the Netherlands and Shanghai.
With projects
ranging from fashion to architecture his interactive designs such as Dune,
Intimacy and Smart Highway are tactile high-tech environments in which viewer
and space become one. This connection, established between ideology and
technology, results in what Roosegaarde calls 'techno-poetry'.
Roosegaarde has won
the INDEX Design Award, World Technology Award, two Dutch Design Awards,
Charlotte Köhler Award, Accenture Innovation Award, and China's Most Successful
Design Award. He has been the focus of exhibitions at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam,
Tate Modern, National Museum in Tokyo, Victoria and Albert Museum, and various
public spaces in Rotterdam and Hong Kong.
Selected by Forbes
and Good 100 as a creative changemaker, Daan Roosegaarde is a frequent invited
lecturer at international conferences such as TED and Design Indaba, and TV
media guest at De Wereld Draait Door and CNN.
Born in Nieuwkoop
(1979). Works and lives in Rotterdam (NL) and Shanghai (CN).
EDUCATION
2003-2005, Berlage
Institute, Postgraduate Architecture,
Rotterdam, NL.
2001-2003, Academy
of Fine Arts, Enschede, NL
(Cum Laude).
1997-1999, Arnhem
Institute for the Arts, Arnhem, NL.
AWARDS
The 2014 GOOD 100,
USA.
The Best of MIE
Award 2014 ‘Contextual intelligence’.
Accenture Innovation
Award, Amsterdam, NL.
CNN Public Choice
Award, Copenhagen, DM.
INDEX Award 2013,
Copenhagen, DM.
People’s Choice
Award CNN, DM.
TIM Innovation Award
‘Most Innovative Leader’, NL.
Media Architecture
Award ‘Future Trends’, Aarhus, DM.
Best Future Concept
Dutch Design Award, NL.!
Core 77 Design
Awards, New York, USA.
Charlotte Köhler Art
Award, Amsterdam, NL.
China’s Most
Successfull Design Award, Shanghai, CN.
Design for Asia
Award, Hong Kong, CN.
Innovation Practice
Award, Shanghai, CN.
W3 Gold Art Award,
USA.
Best Practice
E-Cultuur, Amsterdam, NL.
2010 World
Technology Summit & Awards, NY, USA.
Dutch Design Award
‘Best Autonomous Spatial Design’.
Nomination ‘Nieuwe
Maan’, Rotterdam, NL.
W3 Webby Silver
Award, USA.
www.studioroosegaarde.net
You may reach Daan Roosegaarde’s another news Dune Projects to click below link.
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/07/dune-projected-by-daan-roosegaarde.html
