fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months agowhale skeletal light installation glows red for amsterdam light festival
Installed in front of Amsterdam's Het Scheepvaartmuseum, with NEMO Science Museum in the background, Whale Fall is a light installation by XYTOPIA translating the deep-sea ecological phenomenon of a whale fall into a spatial structure accessible to the . The project was selected through a two-stage international open competition with more than 700 entries, organised by the Amsterdam Light Festival under the theme 'Legacy.' Developed over eighteen months between Sydney, Beijing, and Amsterdam, the installation examines how legacy is defined and by whom.