Times square electronic garden

A 24h pop-up installation in the center of Times Square that speculates about human connection with nature in urban spaces.

Plants, sound, and sustainable architecture were used to create this public display project for the NYCXDesign festival and Global Design NYU.

The idea was to "re-nature" the most overwhelmingly intense urban environment on Earth. A modular open-sphere was built for visitors to walk through an imaginative microcosm space. Using pantyhoses and ryegrass, we created an interactive hanging garden that responded to human touch. The more people interacted with the plants, the more these responded with light and sound outputs.

NYU ITP: Namira Abdulgani, Kylin Chen, Ella Dagan, Jordan Frand, Michelle Hessel, Renata Kuba, Gal Nissim, Isabel Paez, Tigran Paravyan, Lutfiadi Rahmanto, Leslie Ruckman, Abhishek Singh, Edson Soares, Katie Temrowski, Jed Watson, Yan Zhao, Yang Zhao.

NYU Gallatin: Theo Mandin-Lee, Jordan Marks, Max Mezzomo, Valerie Mu, Shel Orock, Alex Selz, Henry Wang.

NYU Staff: Karim Ahmed, Jenny Kijowski, Nicholas P Likos, Lillian J Warner, Matthew Tarpley, Shandor Hassan

Film Media: Keith Miller.

Sound Designer & Producer: Shai Pelled and John Salveto at Metalform Studio

Sponsored by: GDNYU , NYU Gallatin School, Times Square Alliance, NYCxDESIGN, NYU ITP.
NYU ITP: Namira Abdulgani, Kylin Chen, Ella Dagan, Jordan Frand, Michelle Hessel, Renata Kuba, Gal Nissim, Isabel Paez, Tigran Paravyan, Lutfiadi Rahmanto, Leslie Ruckman, Abhishek Singh, Edson Soares, Katie Temrowski, Jed Watson, Yan Zhao, Yang Zhao.
 
NYU Gallatin: Theo Mandin-Lee, Jordan Marks, Max Mezzomo, Valerie Mu, Shel Orock, Alex Selz, Henry Wang.
 
NYU Staff: Karim Ahmed, Jenny Kijowski, Nicholas P Likos, Lillian J Warner, Matthew Tarpley, Shandor Hassan
 
Film Media: Keith Miller.
Sound Designer & Producer: Shai Pelled and John Salveto at Metalform Studio
 
Sponsored by: GDNYU , NYU Gallatin School, Times Square Alliance, NYCxDESIGN, NYU ITP.

MY ROLE

Collaboration around Ideation + User Experience

Assembly

Plant growth