Luminate Festival 2017
Located in the south island of New Zealand in a beautiful mountain environment surrounded by native forest, Luminate welcomes thousands of people from around the world for eight days of music, dance, knowledge sharing, creative inspiration, celebration and transformation.
The festival features 5 zones of music with a unique line-up of International and New Zealand artists.
Ecological initiatives permeate all strands of the Luminate experience and have been fundamental to the festival’s ethos from the beginning in 2008.
Spacecraft Studio and One At Peace collaborated to design and build the main stage of Luminate Festival 2017. The stage had to be built using eco-friendly materials and techniques.
Our Solution
Bamboo was the main material available on the festival site, so we started with designing a bamboo 3D frame for the main stage. Every joint of the frame had to be secured by twisting a metal wire around it and wrapping it with strips of rubber tire tubes. There were more than 200 joints. With the frame complete we added coloured fabrics to brighten up the stage. The colours chosen were in line with the festival’s identity.
The On-stage area was designed keeping in mind the movement of people and equipment that would be brought on and off stage. We decorated it using native plants and art from the previous years to keep the feeling of sustainability and re-usability of resources consistent with the festival.
The center piece was created by artist jadyn flavell and James Flynn in collaboration. To complete the main stage, two projection screens with the festival logo were added on the two sides.
The canopy was constructed in two concentric circles. The outer circle was kept in a uniform incline, increasing as it came closer to the center. The Inner circle was constructed in 3 layers and had 3 large size crystals hung from the center as a sign of a pure and sacred space.