Playfully Perimeter: Wish Garden
Completed: Summer 2025
Client: Alta Planning + Design, Inc.
Scope of Work: Interactive Environmental Design
The Playfully Perimeter Wish Garden was a temporary interactive installation built around an extremely simple idea: people write down wishes, hopes, thoughts, tiny messages to strangers, and tie them onto ribbons suspended throughout the space. That’s basically it. And honestly, it didn’t need to be more complicated than that.
I designed the installation experience and visual materials for the project, creating a colorful ribbon tunnel that slowly transformed over the course of the event as hundreds of people added their own notes and handwriting into it. By the end, the whole thing had this layered, wind-blown texture that felt surprisingly emotional in person. Lots of children took it very seriously. Adults too, although they tried to act more casual about it.
I liked that the project gave people permission to participate without needing instructions longer than a sentence or two. Sometimes interactive work gets so concept-heavy that nobody actually interacts with it. This did the opposite. People immediately understood what to do.
