Client: Swedish National Museums of World Culture

Overview

The Roots of the World is a sculpture created with children in mind. It also deeply reaches to the history of culture, as far as to the Plato’s cave allegory and his concept of shadows cast on the wall of a cave. It is an interactive piece that allows the kids to climb safely (it is also an element of a playground). The sculpture’s physical structure is meant to look like giant roots that surround the Earth. These roots connect all human cultures on the planet, so we, as a species can exchange information and our cultures can mix in a diverse way. To make things even more suggestive, the sculpture is equipped with lamps and speakers that play an audio-visual show about the elements of nature to the kids playing with it, when they enter and start the program.

Goals

The goal was to create and interactive, climbable and educational sculpture that would be a fun toy for the kids on the Etnography Museum's in Stockholm's playground.

Process

We built a steel frame, covered it with hard foam and then a wood-immitating resin composite.
We also included a dynamic RGB lighting system and two speakers, so the sculptures plays an intriguing show about the elements of nature for the kids.