Oregon Experience Laboratory Exhibition
During the World Athletics Championships (Oregon22), the Fuller Initiative Land Lab received a sponsorship by Travel Oregon to create seven interactive landscape installations, each representing a different landscape of Oregon. Partnering with the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), and Fuller Design Fellow, David Buckley Borden, the “Oregon Experience Laboratory” included an embedded challenge within each installation, that when solved, opened a “portal” to its specified region using an Mixed-Reality app designed by CASLS. This game-based overlay allowed international guests to view the diversity of Oregon’s landscapes and was accessible to those who speak English as a second language. Following the Oregon Experience Laboratory exhibition, the “waves” became the Land Lab standard for temporary protection fencing.
The Oregon Experience Laboratory Exhibition received an Honor Award in Pro-Bono Design and the Green Ribbon Award for Climate Action by the Oregon Society of Landscape Architects in 2023.
Principal Design Team | Michael Geffel, Abby Pierce, Masayo Simon / Experience Design | Christopher Daradics, Stephanie Knight / Designers-in-Residence | David Buckley Borden, Ian Vierck, Will Bonner / Sound Artists-in-Residence | Lisa Schonberg, Masayo Simon, Will Bonner / Field Braiding | Liska Clemence Chan / Field Assistants | Jenna Witzleben, Jessica Mitchell, Keith Stanley Project Partners | UO Campus Planning & Facilities Management / UO Communications / Travel Oregon / Lucan Landscaping / Heritage Seedlings / Forrest PaintThe work of the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes is only possible thanks to the generous support of Mort and Sue Fuller (UO Journalism, Class of 1971).