StairWELL is here! We’ve been Innovators-in-Residence at Purdue University this past year, and have collaborated with the multidisciplinary team at Purdue to create a space for reflection and self-expression.

StairWELL is a groundbreaking art installation designed and built at Purdue that builds wellness through interactive art and technology. Using a novel combination of art, technology, and clinical psychology, the StairWELL installation aims create a sense of beauty, respite, and play via an inventive mobile phone interface. Viewers become participants in an expressive journey that creates community while also delivering powerful supportive connections where they may be needed.

From October 16 to 30, 2023, the Third Street Chill Zone near Martin Jischke Drive will come alive with an immersive interactive experience users may interact with via their mobile phones.

“What’s exciting is that students, faculty, and staff, along with musicians from the chromic duo, collaborated for the past year to code, create animations, write music, and develop questions that culminates with a street art installation that speaks to the human condition,” said Todd Wetzel, Assistant Vice Provost of Student Life and Executive Director at Purdue Convocations and Hall of Music Productions.

The StairWELL installation is open to students, faculty, staff and visitors to click a QR code, answer a series of well-being questions based on the World Health Organization’s WHO-5, and connect with the stair-shaped structure clad in LED panels. This innovative project features a captivating visual display with user generated avatars, and a responsive soundtrack written by chromic duo.

StairWELL was designed and built at Purdue by Purdue Convocations, Hall of Music Productions, chromic duo, Purdue Polytechnic Institute, Counseling and Psychological Services, Steps to Leaps, and the Department of Theatre.

Click here to check it out!