AIN`T NO SUNSHINE, 2004 / 2005
Public
art competition, realization with QUIVID (public art program, City of Munich)
solar
controlled light installation in the entrance hall of the Kindergarden
Riegerhofweg, München-Laim
LEDs,
acrylic glass, solar cell, controller system |
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Aint no sunshine is developed for a public art commission
in a kindergarden in Munich and tries to integrate the children
as well as the pedagogic program in a participatory process.
An abstract drawing is developed through drawing and playing
with a big neighborhood map, neighborhood walks and told stories
in which the children describe their daily way from their
homes to the kindergarten. The abstract line net as a cartography
of their daily walks is used as a draft for a light installation
on the ceiling of the new kindergardens entrance hall. It
consists out of yellow light rails that form an individual
map of the neighborhood with the kindergarden building in
the center. The light is animated in relationship to the photovoltaik
solar system on the roof of the building. In eight phases
the light in the line web is growing or shrinking depending
on the solar energy that is gained. When the system reaches
100 percent the light drawing starts blinking. Thus it functions
as an extended display of the solar system and the daily walk
way of the children becomes a metaphor for gaining and using
energy. |
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