“Free the Heaven Spider!” Qixi Festival Themed Pop-up Event – PROJECT OVERVIEW “Free the Heaven Spider” is a pop-up event designed for super-malls in Shanghai for the in-coming Qixi-Festival in 2022, which will be the middle days of August or so. I tried theming this traditional Chinese Festival into a commercial event and explored a…
Introduction: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Experience focuses on audience end goals of escapism and play through storyliving and theming, much similar to story-based rides and shows in theme parks. But what it does different is to take the power of storyliving and theming out of theme parks. It takes it into everyday spaces…
La Morgue – The Cadaver Experiment/Haunted Attraction Concept – UCF Independent project: By Amy K. Avalos (MFA, MS, BAS, BA, AA) Project Origination: Graduate Thesis – at UCF, for an MFA in Themed Experience Website: www.Designology.carbonmade.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amy-k-avalos/ Contact: amya4432@yahoo.com Overview This proposed haunted attraction concept has been inspired by the Paris Morgue, which operated…
The Lantern of Life is a light to help tell a story that utilizes innovative storytelling technology, which creates the illusion of people living inside of it so that one can experience it when standing in a queue for a themed attraction. This original story is about the Johnson family that has lived inside of…
Mystic Caverns is a dark ride concept that I came up with last semester as part of a project to design a new queue. I took inspiration from Celtic mythology to create an original story. I decided I wanted the queue itself to have a mood of serene, yet mysterious. I was able to…
Grandmother’s Garden is an immersive, multi-part experience designed as an educational exercise for Dollywood, in which guests are whisked back into the realm of memory and consider themes of connection, legacy, and how small acts of kindness can grow. It explores how flat rides (in this case an Intamin Flying Island) can be used to create…