EXPERIENTIALS
the encounter comes to life
Scenes From A Lumberjack
In New York City, Dalin Studio transforms a conference room into a northern woodland home to a lumberjack. Visitors encounter a snowy embankment of ice-covered pines, a working campfire, and 12 roaming live bunnies. With the use of lighting, textures, strategic scale and layout, the encounter comes to life on a big scale with a limited budget. Visitors also are invited to decorate a custom designed ginger log cabin that sit on top of stations arranged like tree stumps.
Emergency in the Lab
In New York City, Dalin Studio produces a storied bio lab of the future where visitors experience the science fiction fantasy of an experimement gone awry. Upon entering the environment, a scene of bloody instruments and body parts are surrounded by abnormally large cells and a lone surviving humanoid. Once guests are in place, the humanoid model demonstrates demonstrates how an atomic centrifuge transforms its human participants. To further engage with the lab, stations surround the experiment where guests can carve their own humanoids out of pumpkins. Utilizing a tone on tone pallete, exagerrated scale and stark lighting, the visitor becomes intregued and spatially disoriented.
A Trip to Santa’s Workshop
In New York City, Dalin Studio transforms an event space into a back-in-time Santa’s workshop. The workshop sits under a timber framed roof where spruce and festive ornaments hang alongside tradtitional tools and worktables. The floors are covered with wood shavings from toy building. Outside a large window, snow is blowing on the mountains. In the center of the room is a large display filled with finished old time toys. When guests arrive in the space, live toy sized performers perch in the display and periodically move to add an extra spark of excitement. At each of santas helpers workstations, visitors can decorate their own custom baked ginger doll houses with candy from the display.
Arctic Fishing Adventure
In New York, Dalin Studio produces a holiday event into a trip to the arctic where guests enter a foggy, frozen environment filled with icebergs, northern lights and cracking glacial surfaces revealing a spot for ice fishing. Visitors can walk to the center of the installation and catch some fish or walk into their own fishing huts where there are stations with custom designed gingerbread fishing huts wait to be decorated.
