Wide angle shot of three interactive Christmas trees located in the Central Court of Brookfield Mall in Natick Massachusetts. The central tree is a 22 foot tall tree-like structure covered in LED bulbs that react to a person inside the tree

The Wishing Forest

The Wishing Forest is a series of installations that are playful twists of classic holiday trees. Whether it’s a tree that is lit up with 25,000 individually addressable LEDs that react to an ornament flying through pneumatic tubes, or a 30 foot bell that creates a symphony of chimes triggered by body movement - these are holiday displays that you can interact and create with. We invite you to try forest groves inspired by the mechanical magic of classic coin op arcades and music boxes; to make your own memories in crafted sets; and to create your own forest scape with trees that analyze the rhythmic properties of your voice. This holiday, don’t just walk by holiday displays: run through them, talk like a forest animal, light up the trees, and ring a thousand bells at once.

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To make each wish feel special we devised a system to lift your ornament up into the tree using pneumatic tubes. On its way the ornament lights up a chandelier of twinkling LEDs with sensors, animations and dare we say, a little holiday magic.

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The Bells Grove is where you can run around like a crazy person to play music and light up 600 lights with your movement and run into a few surprises along the way.