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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION:
WINTER WONDERLAND:
On June 10-11 in Philadelphia, The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) is convening preeminent
thinkers and influencers from around the world to set
the course for landscape architecture to make its vital
contribution in the 21st century.
The Summit on Landscape Architecture and the
Future will give an exceptional line up of established
and emerging leaders (including Jacky Bowring, of
Lincoln University) the opportunity to reflect on what
landscape architecture has achieved over the last 50
years, present bold ideas for what it should achieve in
the future, and engage in lively debate about realizing
landscape architecture’s potential and effecting real
world change.
During the summit, landscape architect Joanna
Karaman and film-maker Michael Rubin will capture
the overall energy and spirit of the event through
one-on-one interviews with participants. The
resulting 15-20 minute documentary film will create
a narrative of the Summit that showcases the diversity of speakers and topics covered at the event. The
interviews will give speakers an opportunity to further
explain and reflect on their declarations, as well as
give a chance for attendees to voice their ideas and
reactions.
The film will premiere in October at the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture in Canberra, Australia.
To celebrate its 200th birthday, the Royal Botanic
Garden will explode with many types of illumination
during Vivid Sydney, which claims to be ‘the world’s
largest festival of light, music and imagination’.
Enter the Garden through the historic Queen Elizabeth II gates from the Sydney Opera House forecourt,
which will be brought to life with 3D-mapped projections. As darkness falls the transformation begins:
gentle slopes become electric grids, sweeping shafts
of light direct attention from the path deep into the
foliage. Patterns and movements dance across the
trees; elsewhere bursts of colour splash and dazzle
and ripple across the lawns.
Follow the illuminated colonial seawall to emerge
into a wonderland of trees and bushes that glow and
shimmer.
A central feature of Garden of Light is the Cathedral
of Light, an immense arched tunnel 60m long and 8m
high, made of tens of thousands of white LEDs. From
the outside, it appears to radiate gentle but brilliant
light at all angles; inside, the glowing monolith is revealed as myriad points of light.
Further along, a zone of landscaped crags and giant
figs have been video-mapped and used for projections
as the Garden reveals a surprisingly bold nightlife.
Then experience the Sentiment Cocoon, a collaborative interactive installation that seeks to express
human emotion through the medium of light.
Through June 18,
the Royal Botantic
Garden will be
transformed as part
of Vivid Sydney. The
Sentiment Cocoon
is an interactive
display of sight,
sound and touch.