Immerse Yourself in Nature
Nature Stall
Hand-made Art
Creative Direction
Multisensory Art
Placemaking Art
Space Curation
At a CCI event, I built a three-walled immersive stall where attendees could take a real break without leaving the floor. Foam-dampened walls cut the noise, and inside, each artwork paired to its own soundtrack on an iPod, a red-winged blackbird over the rush of a river, with scent strips and blank paper waiting. People stepped in depleted and stepped out with ideas.
THE CHALLENGE
Creative conferences ask a lot of people. Hours of stimulation, sessions back to back, a room that never stops humming. By mid-afternoon most attendees are full and none of them are thinking clearly. But the best ideas at an event like CCI don't happen in the sessions. They happen in the gap after one. An event floor gives you no gap.
THE PROCESS
I started from where good thinking actually happens, which for most people is a walk outside. That set the constraint: a retreat you could enter in ten steps and leave in ten more. Three walls, not four. Enough enclosure to feel held, open enough that no one has to commit to walk in. Noise was the hard problem. Foam sandwiched between layers of wood deadens the floor outside and makes stillness possible at close range. Then the senses. Each artwork got its own track on an iPod, a red-winged blackbird over the rush of a river, so sound and image arrive as one place. Scent strips brought in smell. Blank paper and a few prompts gave people somewhere to put what surfaced.
THE SOLUTION
A three-walled immersive stall that reads as an escape and works as an idea engine. People stepped in depleted and stepped out with something. The blank paper was the tell. They didn't just sit, they wrote. Nature doesn't have to be real to do its work.
Approach
Every project follows the same process. One rooted deeply in the practice of my Signature Thataway Method.
Solutions
This project was funded in support by Meow Wolf Denver.
