Walk Walk Dance
Toronto, Montréal, Coquitlam, St-Albert, CA | +
Collective experiences have the power to create new spaces for play. Across the world, cities explore new ways of becoming more pedestrian and bike friendly, embracing the use and creation of outdoor public spaces, and offering safe moments of fun and delight.
Created during the pandemic, Walk Walk Dance is a series of music-making lines that explore how participation and interaction can improve mobility, transforming the very act of walking into a joyful, expressive and collective experience.
Place des Arts - Montréal
How it works
It’s simple: step, jump, roll or dance on the lines to trigger music. This project was designed to be accessible to everyone, whether they are on foot or on wheels: all the technology is enclosed in a chain of boxes and planters, weighted down with local plants. Lines are simply drawn, painted or taped.
This is the best time ever to think of a walkable city.
Making cities dance
Walk Walk Dance is a roving project — designed for struggling cities that need to quickly revive their public spaces in the wake of COVID-19. Created for temporary displays, the installation adapts to all pathways and streets, making it easy to deploy in diverse urban settings.
Because every city needs a dancing strategy.
Photo ©Jack Landau
Features
- Touchless
- 6 feet between play sections
- Design adapts easily to slope variations
- All tech components are in a protective case / flower bed
- Lines are made with paint, chalk, a carpet or adhesive
Photo ©Jack Landau
Awards and Recognitions
- Hub Montreal International Outreach Grand Prize
- Core77 Design Awards 2021
- Design Vanguard Covid-19 Directory
Credits
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- This project is an original artwork by Daily tous les jours
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- This project was made possible in part by the Government of Canada
- With the support of the SODEC
- Creative Direction
- Mouna Andraos
- Melissa Mongiat
- Production
- Stu Wershof
- Narrative Experience
- Anne Ouellette
- Sound Direction
- Michael Baker
- Object Design Direction
- Rebecca Taylor
- Interactive Direction
- Pierre Thirion
- Technological Direction
- Eva Schindling
- Technical Direction
- Éric Villeneuve
- Copywriting
- Cécile Chandran
- Video
- Victorine Yok-Thot Sentilhes
- Thank you
- Daily’s team: Hugo Dufour-Bouchard, Justine Jacob-Roy & Noémie Rivière. Antoine, Léon, Leyl, Sama.
- Powered with the help of
- Arduino