Interactive landscape Dune, 2007-2010

Daan Roosegaarde - Rotterdam, Netherlands

New Media

Dune is an interactive landscape which reacts to the behaviour of people. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibres which are brightened according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors.

Dune investigates nature in a futuristic relation with urban space by means of looking, walking and interacting. Walking through Dune has been described in the media as being an "Alice in Technoland."

After traveling from Victoria & Albert Museum in London to Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010 a special version of Dune will transform the Lower Bay Station in downtown Toronto into an interactive landscape of light.

Daan Roosegaarde is Creative Director of Studio Roosegaarde, an artistic laboratory for interactive projects which won the Dutch Design Award 2009. Daan Roosegaarde's work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and e-culture. His sculptures create a situation of 'tactile high-tech' where visitor and (public) space become one. Roosegaarde's interactive projects have been internationally exhibited at V2_, The National Art Center Tokyo, the Venice Biennale 2009, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Suitable for all ages