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Box City was created by children, their families and contemporary Queensland artists.
 

Simple materials were transformed into amazing structures in Cai Guo-Qiang’s Bridge crossing interactive.
 
 

Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic structural evolution project put the creation of a city into children’s hands.
 
 
 

Featured interactives

Since 1999 the Queensland Art Gallery has worked with major contemporary artists to design interactive activities specifically for children and families. View short videos of some featured interactives below.

Box City

On 15 January 2006 – in conjunction with the children’s exhibition ‘Made for This World: Contemporary Art and the Places We Build’ – Box City was the largest-scale interactive art project for children the Gallery has ever commissioned.

 View Box City Video (1 minute 35 seconds)

 Download Box City didactic (29 Kb)
 

Olafur Eliasson

Thousands of Lego pieces were transformed into a sprawling metropolis in Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic structural evolution project, which was featured in the 2005 Children's Art Centre exhibition ‘Made for this World’.

 View Olafur Eliasson Video (58 seconds)
 

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang’s Blue dragon and bridge crossing – Project for the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial 1999 featured a full-scale bamboo bridge installed in the Gallery’s Watermall. Cai’s interactive Bridge crossing encourages children to explore their own creativity and engineer a bridge made of bamboo.

 View Cai Guo-Qiang Video (4 minutes 57 seconds)