Light as a physical argument
UNWTO World Tourism Day 2023 was hosted by the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Tourism in Riyadh, and the brief called for a statement installation that could anchor the main event space. Working with Imagination and Light Initiative, we designed a kinetic light sculpture that moved and reacted, making the theme of the day material rather than representational.Kinetic light at this scale requires a specific kind of pre-production. The physical engineering and the lighting control system have to be designed together from the start, not assembled in sequence. We worked across the mechanical design, the control architecture, and the visual programme simultaneously, which is the only way to ensure that what the sculpture does is what the concept requires rather than what the hardware can manage by default.
