The Light Table Design Collective

The blues of Out of Sight 2017.

LTDC was invited to participate in Seattle Art Museum's Second Annual Lights Festival with a participatory art installation. The brief was to create an art activity that incorporated light: reflection, shadow, illumination, etc. SAM was particularly excited about our participation because our work has been responsive to site and the environment.

For our project we took inspiration from bioluminescent sea creatures who generate light in the darkness of the deep sea, particularly siphonophores.. A siphonophore is a bioluminescent ocean creature often found at great depths. It resembles and acts as a single organism, but is in fact a community of highly specialized individuals acting in concert to benefit the whole.

This idea led us to create, essentially, an enormous Light Bright, which was shaped like a giant cephalopod. The form was illuminated from the inside with 500+ 3" holes drilled into it. Each hole was covered with a dark circle of paper. Participants were invited to create their own "light signature" on a piece of vellum using a select color palette. They then chose a location for their piece, removed the dark paper covering and affixed their work to the dynamic and every brightening communal sculpture.

This rainy day has us thinking about last winter's light installation at the SAM Sculpture Park. It was a magical evening! We are working on a light installation at Freeway Park this winter too - so we'll keep you posted!

Hey friends - Carrie Barnes and I are lucky to be participating artists in Heaven & Earth 7: Propagation at Carkeek Park this summer. Opening weekend is July 11 and the work will up through October. Come visit, take a walk through the park and discover lots of hidden works of art!

This is just a short update on cleanup plans for the Duwamish, from the excellent publication of The High Country News. Anyone seen more details elsewhere?
http://www.hcn.org/issues/46.22/the-latest-epa-released-final-cleanup-order-for-duwamish-river?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email

The Latest: EPA released final cleanup order for Duwamish River A million cubic yards of toxic sludge will be dredged from Seattle’s only river.

We have a new website! And we are looking for new projects so let us know if you've got any public art, urban design ideas percolating...
www.thelighttable.com

Home The Light Table Design Collective (LTDC) is an urban design collective specializing in public art, community design, green infrastructure and landscape architecture. We have been working collaboratively across disciplines and with communities since 2009.

Some questions for all you designers and planners out there in the States! In December I, Maria Taylor, gave an open lecture at Siberian Federal University on ecological approaches in American landscape architecture, focusing on Seattle, Denver, and New York. The questions I got from the audience at the end were apt, astute and at times beyond my ability to answer immediately. What I'd like to do is turn some of the questions over to you, Friends of The Light Table Design Collective, and start some international design conversation. Just in time for the Olympics! So please check out the attached album, and comment on the threaded topics that you know best. And feel free to add some questions of your own, if you'd like to know more about how landscape and urban design are practiced here in Siberia. I will also invite some of my colleagues here to join the discussion. Dogovorilis?