LATERAL OFFICE
Toronto, Canada
A luminous and interactive playground
Impulse invites you into a playful, multisensory experience with a standby of childhood play: the seesaw. The installation is a series of teeter-totters that respond to riders’ movements with fluctuating light and sound.
With this urban instrument, you will help create an ephemeral environment in constant renewal. However, Impulse’s sights and sounds are not random. Inspired by serialism, a musical method of composition, the installation creates different zones of varying intensity and calm.
Impulse is an invitation to play, to laugh and to interact. It creates a collective experience of joy and community.
Technical features
Quantity of seesaws: 15
Total weight of one module: 485 lbs (221 kg)
Dimensions: 6 seesaws of 19 pi (5 m) and 9 seesaws of 24 pi (7 m)
Footprint: 17 220 pi2 (1 575 m2)
Several configurations can be considered depending on the site and the desired experience, but we recommend a linear configuration.
Creation and production
Lateral Office and CS Design
Collaboration
EGP Group
Sound design
Mitchell Akiyama
Fabrication
Generique Design
Production
Quartier des Spectacles Partnership
Executive Production, Touring
Jack World
Gallery
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Montréal, Canada © Ulysse Lemerise, OSA images
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Charlotte, USA 2022 © Kyo HNam
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Dallas, USA 2019 © Mike Brooks
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Brisbane, Australie, 2018 © Régis Proulx
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Charlotte, USA, 2019 © Charlotte Uptown
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Adélaïde, Australie, 2022 © Xplorer Studio
Impulsion de Lateral Office et CS Design, Chicago, USA 2017 © Heidi Ziegler