An interactive sculpture exhibited in France and Korea, exploring the tension between personal and public spaces. Visitors engage directly, reflecting on boundaries and intimacy within communal environments, prompting them to question their own sense of privacy amidst shared surroundings.

Year & Place
2019, Aix-en-Provence, France and Seoul, Korea

Client
The Camp, Zero1

Role & Responsibilities
I was the project leader and lead Experience Designer for this project.

Team & Collaborators
Sound art: Myroslava Kuts, Architect Sangwoo Lim, Maker
Seongmin Park, Sound Design Sunghyeop Seo

Users
Visitors seeking immersive, sensory-rich experiences, often culturally curious individuals interested in exploring mindfulness, relaxation, and intimacy through art. Participants ranged widely in age, backgrounds, and nationalities, unified by a desire for meaningful connections and moments of contemplation within a shared, interactive environment.

Process & Methodologies
After an ideation workshop for artists and designers, we came together and defined the concept from a UX perspective. We focused on the how the users will experience the installation and what kind of feelings we wanted the users leaving with. We prototype the experience with cardboard and research materials that followed safety requirements. We worked in team units and collaborated thought a design sprint. We work on-site together for shared sessions.

Challenges & Solutions
One of the main challenges were the language barrier and time constrains. Another challenge was to create a good team dynamics that allowed for effective collaboration.

Impact & Results
We tested the outcome and users enjoyed the experience. Relaxation and intimacy were some of the main feelings that users experienced. The installation was then re-built for the Zero1 exhibition in Seoul, Korea, where I was invited to participate as a speaker and share the process of how we worked in The Camp with innovation and prototyping.

Concept

Personal space is connected to the feelings of autonomy, control and privacy. Personal space is a singular perception beyond the physical distance between humans.

The Collective Sleep Orchestra is an installation that brings the individual consciousness and presence into a collective experience. We focus on the feeling of privacy within a collective action. It is an invitation to experience personal space in the context of a public space where all users can become aware of the impact of themselves in the place while keeping a feeling of comfortable privacy.

Private cells invite users to an individual action of isolation and limited accessibility to surroundings. Though sounds, the private cells create individual and anonymous imprints of their presence that replicates into the other cells. Reality is cropped, a personal singular view of the world that creates a unique private moment for each user.