+Pool Light Illuminating Water Quality

+Pool Light designed by PLAYLAB INC. and Family New York in collaboration with Floating Point for Friends of + POOL, is illuminating the importance of water quality awareness at South Street Seaport in downtown NYC. Empowering people with data and engaging them visually, this + shaped floating public art display changes color, brightness, frequency and sharpness based on the quality of water passing through it.

McLaren was part of the permitting, engineering and project management for the framing and floating system of the 50 x 50 feet sculpture that changes direction in the current.

“Water quality data is incredibly complex, so access to data means very little to everyday people,” said Kara Meyer, managing director of Friends of + Pool. “We wanted to figure out a way to empower people with the data and engage them visually with what is happening in the water in front of them.”

+Pool Light will be on display now until January 4, 2020.