An inflatable designed and created for the Abundant Futures exhibition at Carnegie Mellon University. Nature’s Dreamscape represents the abundance of nature and what it offers us, both now and in the many possible futures.
My team and I were tasked with responding to the prompt of ‘Abundant Futures’ in our Inflatables class at Carnegie Mellon University. I began the ideation process by visualizing some forms that excited me.
I embraced the qualities that are unique to inflatables in my sketches. Large, full forms that are colorful and bountiful, beautiful in their simplicity, but playful at their core. In my concept sketches, I considered how a person might interact with the form, and the role this plays in the story we were telling.
I eventually landed on a giant, enveloping leaf. A form that was comforting but also exciting in its expansiveness and power, what being in nature feels like.
Finally, we got the chance to see people interact with our leaf. To me, these quiet moments of conversations underneath the structure, or individual observation of it, were the most powerful.