collective voices

a pavilion for diversity

Type: Pavilion Installation

Location: Toronto, Canada

Year: 2017

Status: Design Competition Proposal

Design Team: Armando Rigau & Ryan Glick

Description: This installation manifests rioting as a collective register of individual voices. In this spirit, the lifeguard stand has been re-conceptualized as a dynamic generator that brings different perspectives together. The design emulates an outburst of empowered individuals through series of fractured walls that radiate out from the stand. The walls contain an array of hooks, accompanied by words that relate to the human condition – including values, attributes, and issues. During the life of the installation, the public is invited to contribute by reacting to 6 prompts about things that either: bring happiness; one identifies with; one regrets; need change; are frustrating; or are neglected. Using color-coded bungee cords that hang from the newly clad stand, visitors connect two terms together in response to the prompts. When approaching the project, it will appear as a rigid, inaccessible network of planes and vectors. Up close, spectators who chose to participate by “voicing an opinion” will discover a flexible, interactive system that keeps the project ever changing. Resulting in a visual record of Toronto’s collective voices, the design reflects on the nature of society to discover unexpected associations, challenges, and tensions.