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EXHIBITION DESIGN
(2018)
BRIEF:
To design an innovative exhibition space that provides an interactive learning environment for users and provokes discussion about the industrialisation of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The temporary exhibition for design activism will be situated in the SLQ Knowledge Walk at Southbank and should facilitate opportunities to educate, entertain and engage.
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RESPONSE:
Bombora is a temporary interactive light installation in which the form was conceptualised through bio-mimicry of natural occurring patterns of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The semi translucent HDPE structure houses thousands of messages in glass bottles, an SOS for the reef, encased in bath bombs that occupy the small vessels.
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The exhibition begins a highly saturated prism of rainbow, illuminated by cool white led back-lighting. As users like clown fish, navigate through a sea anemone like maze they are encouraged to remove a message in a bottle.
Over the coarse of the exhibition, Bombora (Australian noun for submerged offshore reef) slowly has all of it's colour drained leaving a stark white or 'bleached' form by the end of the exhibition.
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The user experience continues once home with the use of the Bath Bombora memento. The message in the bottle directs users to the Fight For Our Reef web address once the Bath Bombora formula dissolves in their bath, symbolising a recolouring of our reef through education and action.
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