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Invisible City to Take Root in a London Park This Summer
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April 02, 2013

Invisible City to Take Root in a London Park This Summer

By Cheryl Kaften
TMCnet Contributor

A new outdoor venue for art exhibitions and music festivals will be “hidden in plain sight” in a London park this summer—with plans for similar installations in New York and other cities worldwide in the future.

The Invisible City concept has been developed by London-based artist-philosopher partners, Claudia Moseley and Edward Shuster, as an initiative of their Invisible Works studio. The design team is creating structures that are “biophilic”—organic architectural solutions that incorporate elements derived from nature.  


Each band shell or gallery resembles a wildly overgrown, organic plant variant—made with sustainably sourced timber “ribs” and a selection of eco-friendly “skins.”

According to Moseley and Shuster, “Invisible structures aim to provoke transformative, restorative, and creative experiences, inspired by the natural world... These unique multi-media environments offer new ways to experience, interact and communicate with/in nature and bring organic form into urban environments.”

The company has high-profile patrons— including film director Tim Burton, actress Helena Bonham Carter, and the Director of the Royal Institute of British Architects Charles Knevitt. The pair is also working in collaboration with such naturalistic U.K.-based designers as Jerry Tate Architects, Blue Forest and Novum Structures.

According to Fortune magazine, the 2013 London installation will comprise an amphitheater, an exhibition space, a set of three dining pods, and a smaller set of teardrop-shaped pods that will “give a new meaning to hanging out.”

 The Invisible City aerial amphitheater was inspired by the shape of a shelf mushroom; the restaurants, by seed pods; and the treetop exhibition spaces, by beehives.

The team told Fortune that they have been inspired not only by the idea of creating a naturalistic meeting space within a park, but by the Occupy Wall Street movement and its “spinoffs.” 


Hangout pods designed for Invisible City (Image via Invisible Works)

“We are inspired by the zeitgeist idea that people are passionate about reclaiming public space and making a stand against social injustices, and this helped us to clarify what we wanted to achieve - small scale structures where the individual is in direct contact with the environment; introducing into the culture a dynamic mix of content from individuals, producers and artists,” Mosley and Shuster explained. It's a school of perception where people can create the future. We want people to engage with this project not thinking that they will be buying an experience, but that they will have their eyes widened and ears perked.”

They added, “We came to the idea of creating an environment in an urban setting with the belief that this environment could radically improve the quality of people's lives, by opening up the possibility of social and cultural interaction on the threshold of nature. We became quite obsessed with this idea of Invisible Structures— these natural patterns and correspondences that could inform design, social networks and material spaces and be totally inclusive.

Invisible Works is hoping for a 10-year residency in its first park, while building out a company that would deliver similar privately financed installations in cities everywhere.




Edited by Braden Becker


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