Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
Interactive installation in the San Francisco Continuity exhibition.
Stillness is one form of participation
Forest of Flowers and People: Lost, Immersed and Reborn formed part of teamLab’s Continuity exhibition in San Francisco. Its official work page explains that flowers grow more abundantly around a still visitor, while touch or footsteps cause them to shed petals. The imagery is generated as the encounter unfolds, with sound credited to Hideaki Takahashi. This makes behaviour and time central to the experience. How would a host give visitors enough room and dwell time to discover both gentle observation and more active interaction?
teamLab — Forest of Flowers and People ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow would space and dwell time support both still observation and active interaction?
Big Art Partners planning prompt Living orchid installation, dated 2015 onward.
A garden that opens around the visitor
Floating Flower Garden: Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One uses living orchids in a suspended mass. Flowers lift above people to create passages, and those spaces connect when visitors meet. The official page dates the evolving work from 2015 and credits sound to Hideaki Takahashi. Its living material adds a horticultural dimension to the spatial choreography. For a related venue discussion, how would plant care, fragrance, visitor movement and access needs be considered together from the start?
teamLab — Floating Flower Garden ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow would plant care, fragrance, visitor movement and access needs be planned together?
Big Art Partners planning prompt Shriram Learning Center, San Francisco, July 2021–February 2022.
A drawing can travel beyond its room
For Sketch Ocean at the Asian Art Museum in 2021–2022, visitors coloured sea creatures that were animated into a shared digital environment. The museum describes drawings moving into Continuity elsewhere in the building and connecting with teamLab installations in Shanghai or Tokyo. It credits the artwork to teamLab, with sound by Hideaki Takahashi. The learning-centre setting made participation part of the exhibition visit. What staffing, drawing space and clear instructions would help a host support both first-time participants and people following their creatures into another room?
Asian Art Museum — Sketch Ocean ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWhat staffing, drawing space and instructions would support participation across rooms?
Big Art Partners planning prompt 