Created by REMAP’s Jeff Burke and Fabian Wagmister, in collaboration with artists Michael Parker and Troy Rounseville, Wellspring is an original, digitally interactive sculpture that serves as the trailhead for the paths of the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab)’s LASHP Trails App.
A partnership between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks to conceive and prototype innovative approaches to interpretive technology for urban spaces, IMLab’s “living laboratory” is the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP), a significant 32-acre site immediately outside of Downtown Los Angeles. The LASHP Trails App presents three looped “interactive interpretive” trails that start at the interactive light and sound of Wellspring, and wind through some of the oldest sections of the City. Intended to encourage local community members to engage with LA’s history while also enjoying its public green spaces, the site provides photos and facts about the rich stages of development that occurred along the paths.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television article.
Images of Wellspring process from IMLab’s media archive—https://archive.imlab.ucla.edu/Projects/Wellspring-2014.
UCLA REMAP and California State Parks—2014-present.