The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth's walls and passages manipulate and amplify the phenomenas of light, shadow, sound and space resonating within UCSD's man-made eucalyptus landscape. The intervention injects a sense of play and wonder to a physical landscape devoid of ecological diversity and an institution devoid of social interaction.

Much of UCSD's landscape and architecture are composed of vacant antiseptic spaces that result in a fractured, dysfunctional social body. The Labyrinth resuscitates and defines this specific space with a series of labyrinthine passages woven through the grove's grid. It co-opts and adapts to this underlying blueprint and underscores theinherent contradictions present at its core: the creation of a man-made space that mimics one developed over centuries and the questionable failure to include diversity in the structure, landscape and social design of UCSD.

The Labyrinth is 2200sq foot interactive eco-sculpture designed to study and engage the dynamics of real-world (embodied) social behavior. With no ceilings and translucent 8ft walls, surveillence cameras and social-analytics software (RealTimeLapse) constantly record Time-Lapse Videos of the patterns of social interactions that emerge within this reconfigurable, constantly evolving architectural space.