Project Overview

Nobel Field is an interactive installation celebrating Nobel Prize winners, installed at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. The installation features a field of 1,000 glowing grass blades that guide visitors through the space, with 108 high-definition displays showcasing the peace prize winners and their important work.

As visitors walk through the Field, sensors track their movement and activate nearby screens with a flourish of light and music played through an 18-channel speaker system. The installation features punctuated events throughout the day, including sparkling light displays connecting peace prize winners by theme, notable speech recordings, and other beautiful visual and sonic events.

My contributions

The project was a collaboration between myself, Hypersonic, Small Design Firm, Adjaye Associates, and the Nobel Peace Center team. The installation was completed in March 2015.

I was responsible for the design and implementation of the lighting design and electronics architecture of the installation:

• Lighting and sensing electronics for 108 high-resolution displays
  • Infrared proximity detection to activate video playback
  • frame-synchronous LED lighting for the display cases
• Distributed modular LED lighting system for the 1000 grass blades
  • Custom TCP/IP-based lighting control system
  • Modular 3.5mm TRRS jack outputs for each blade, allowing easy installation and replacement of grass blades