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The Sky lab at C2 Montréal

C2 Montréal

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Designer
C2 Montréal
Client
C2 Montréal
Floor area
130.00 ㎡
Completion
2017

The Sky lab invites participants to shoot for the stars and dream big. Not only were they asked to think about moonshots while dangling six metres in the air, but also to think about ways of cultivating “moonshot thinking.” The installation is composed of three groups of five vintage Kirkey bucket seat chairs suspended from a circular truss. The 15 participants are then elevated inside a nine-metre-diameter cylindrical space, the surface of which is covered in projections from four video projectors. This allows participants to live their experience cut off from the rest of the event while the projections permit passersby to see them in weightlessness through the play of shadows. At their feet, a 10-metre, circular mirrored floor reminds participants that their meeting is still happening on Earth in a warehouse/art gallery. The installation is a kinetic architectural gesture in and of itself. The brainstorming focuses on identifying the next major breakthroughs that can transform our lives on a daily basis as three major stages punctuate this experience. The rise allows the elevation of ideas. Once suspended, the participants undertake a session of ideation. Then the return to Earth where new ideas can become rooted in practice.