I’m trying to make a habit of what I find works for me when viewing others’ more established lighting and immersive design installations.

Things I appreciated about TeamLab Borderless @ Mori (Roppongi)

  1. Cohesion between different exhibits
  • e.g. the steam entrance showing a different exhibit’s perspective, same music
  1. Different ways of having the viewer relate to the space
  • being surrounded by lighting (with unknown scale), vs. with known scale (lilypads, plus the transition from “underwater” to “above water”), vs. the lighting is using you as a frame of reference (moving orbs on tracks)
  1. Total seamlessness of operation / highly predictable / very robust
  • teahouse
  1. Harnessing existing constraints for useful noise (vibration of the moving orbs) – thus elegantly using the strengths of the installation’s implementation in one’s favor rather than overengineering.
  • moving orbs on tracks