22nd October 2009. With opening speeches from John Beddington (Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government), Ed Miliband (MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) and David Miliband (MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), the press opening of ‘Prove It!’ (Designed by Ab Rogers Design) proved to be great success, creating a huge buzz.
This December, 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to tackle climate change. In preparation for this crucial summit, the Science Museum commissioned Ab Rogers Design to design Prove It!. This exhibition explores the scientific evidence behind climate change, signaling that it is not belief, but fact. At the same time, it inspires action and a sense of optimism for a greener future.
A series of large cone-shaped tensile structures fill the space, constructed from lengths of string attached to powder-coated white steel rings. The strings are pulled taut against the Science Museum’s physical structure, tapping into its excess energy. As a counterpoint to the wasted energy of the public building, the structures act as temporary monuments made from an absolute minimum of physical materials, beacons that signal environmental consciousness to the world.
Images posted with thanks to venturethree.
Posted By Rina | 19 November 2009 |
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This December, 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to tackle climate change. In preparation for this crucial summit, the Science Museum had commissioned Ab Rogers Design to design Prove It! opening 22 October 2009. The exhibition explores the scientific evidence behind climate change, signaling that it is not belief, but fact. At the same time, it inspires action and a sense of optimism for a greener future.
And these are work-in-progress photos taken on-site, a week before the opening day - lots and lots of vibrant orange strings filling up the space!
Posted By Rina | 19 November 2009 |
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It’s been quite some time ago - and probably some of you who had a recent visit to the Turbine Hall would have seen it already - but last October, Ab Rogers Design had installed 3 gigantic donation boxes in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern.
Image courtesy of John Short
Image courtesy of John Short
The larger-than-life boxes are deliberately prominent and difficult to miss, standing 2.7 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide. Yet their transparent acrylic construction offers very little to interrupt the visitor’s view: only a sign and a series of luminous coin deflectors. They are windows rather than monuments, inviting visitors to look through them as much as at them.
Visitors stretch to reach the highest slot they can. Their coins drop into the slot and ricochet through a series of colourful coin deflectors before falling with a clink to the bottom of the donation box. Each donation transforms this minimal construction into a kinetic composition of colour, light and sound.
Posted By Rina | 17 July 2009 |
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