Built in just 17 days, the Temple of Flux was the largest effigy Burning Man festival has ever had.
The Temple of Flux was inspired by the 2010 festival’s "metropolis" theme, and was made up of five enormous landforms that interlocked to create a series of canyons and caverns. It was also composed almost entirely of wood and other makeshift materials, which makes it an altogether enormous production, but not necessarily a terribly environmentally friendly one.
After standing for just 10 days, however, the gigantic effigy was finally set alight as the climactic close to the festival.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Sustainable Effigies
- Opportunity to create effigies using eco-friendly materials and sustainable construction methods at festivals.
- Immersive Structures
- Opportunity to design and build immersive, interactive structures that create unique experiences at festivals.
- Temporary Architecture
- Opportunity to construct temporary architectural marvels that capture the spirit of events and can be disassembled afterwards.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Event Production
- Disruptive innovation opportunity to incorporate sustainable materials and immersive structures in event production and set design.
- Architecture
- Disruptive innovation opportunity to explore new materials and construction methods for temporary architectural designs that can be used for large-scale events.
- Festival Industry
- Disruptive innovation opportunity to create eco-friendly and immersive experiences through the use of sustainable construction materials and unique structures at festivals.
