LUMINOUS LUSAIL: An interactive floor for public participation
DELIVERED | LUSAIL, QATAR | 2024
A large-scale responsive floor that lets visitors create visual fireworks and music simply by moving through a public space.
The opportunity
Luminous Lusail’s outdoor light festival brought responsive play into a destination event. Georgie developed the interactive audiovisual work remotely, with no access to the physical floor during development and a short installation window in Qatar.
The experience
Georgie’s project account describes mouse-driven prototypes and virtual 3D demonstrations of how footsteps would activate animation. Adjustable sensitivity and visual scale supported on-site tuning. Visitors could paint and trigger animations through movement, accompanied by sound.
Documented delivery
The delivered floor is documented in the portfolio and QUT interview. Georgie’s 2024 project account records the prototyping approach and a three-day installation window. The work formed part of a wider production directed by Kendyl Rossi.
A practical delivery method
The project account describes early visual and sound approvals, interactive prototypes and simulated footstep behaviour. This gave remote collaborators a way to review the experience before testing it on the physical floor.
Opportunities for a future commission
Participation beyond language
A step produces a visible and audible response. This format offers an intuitive invitation for international visitors, while accessible ways to participate would be designed and tested for each site.
Family activity after dark
Responsive play gives groups something to do together within an evening event. A Queensland precinct could combine participatory installations with performance, food and visitor services.
Queensland creative capability
The project demonstrates Brisbane-based creative practice operating in an international production setting. It provides a relevant reference for destination partners seeking large-scale public experiences.
A future Queensland waterfront, civic plaza or fan precinct could use responsive ground-level media as a shared play space. Landscape-inspired visual and sound content could express the destination, developed for the community and physical setting.
Audience insights and engagement data
A future floor could log activation counts, activity by zone and time, and session duration where technically supported. Aggregated patterns could guide layout, content rotation and staffing. A voluntary QR survey could capture preferences, with a separate email opt-in for future events. Footsteps would not reveal email addresses or identify individuals; these analytics would require a defined logging and consent design.
How a future commission could be evaluated
- Crowd interaction
- Compare floor activations by zone and time; assess flow and dwell with agreed tools.
- Audience preferences
- Combine popular interaction patterns with voluntary feedback on content and enjoyment.
- Ongoing contact
- Track explicit email sign-ups and subsequent event referrals, separately from footfall.
A useful commissioning step
Agree the creative scope and lead-production responsibilities. Test surface conditions, step-free access, interaction response, capacity, sound and weather operation. Separate installation evaluation from whole-festival reporting.
Sources and credits
Georgie Pinn PHIVE EOI project account, April 2024; supplied portfolio; QUT interview. Technical dimensions differ across records and are omitted pending confirmation. Dubai appears in the hardware-storage account, not as the confirmed installation site.