Project: Earth

Information Through Construction

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the first wave of COVID-19, our team remotely concepted, planned, and designed a physical installation for Earth Day 2021. The idea was to make a large construction with a focus on drawing passersby into the attraction to learn about the global climate crisis, and ways to combat it. The final idea was a 24 ft steel globe, with full lighting design and projection, that would illuminate after the sun went down. With a lights display, and projection surfaces made of recycled parachute silk, the final product was an eye-catching mark of renewal that drew in crowds from all over campus.

I served as one of the original designers of the globe, seeing the process through from the original concept in May 2020 to the final deconstruction in May of 2021. This structure stood for one week, erected on Earth Day 2021, and was available for all students and all members of the public to visit and learn.

Constructed in-house in the UMass Professional Theater Department shop, then disassembled, moved, and reassembled piecemeal along a central spinning axis.