'Wish Happiness' was an interactive installation that featured at the 2018 Vivid Light Festival in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Sydney, Australia.
The concept was inspired by Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels and meditation mandalas. The act of spinning the wheel playfully engages visitors in public rituals of generosity, contemplation and well-wishing.
CREDITS:
Artist
Kristina Mah
Kristina Mah
Projection and Hardware
Craig Laurendet and Trevor Collict
Craig Laurendet and Trevor Collict
Design and Build
TILT Industrial Design
TILT Industrial Design
Structural Engineers
Partridge
Partridge
Animation
Mike Foxall
Mike Foxall
Tibetan Painting Detail
Thupten Gyatso
Thupten Gyatso
Video Documentation
One Ski Digital
One Ski Digital
PUBLICATION
Mah, K., Loke, L., & Hespanhol, L. (2020, February). Designing with ritual interaction: A novel approach to compassion cultivation through a buddhist-inspired interactive artwork. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 363-375). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3374920.3374947