Movement · Sound · Art
Reconnecting people with their creative power, communities, and the living world. A collective of artists, architects, engineers and builders making immersive public art in bamboo.
Philosophy
The spaces we build shape the way we feel, the way we connect, and the way we remember who we are.
Vision & Mission
Explore, create, envision
What we explore
How immersive architecture can reshape perception and deepen awareness of the living systems we move within — how structure, material, sound, light and movement influence human experience, collective presence, and our relationship to space, time and self.
What we create
Original, large-scale participatory installations that inspire curiosity and invite deeper awareness. Through regenerative design and inclusive collaboration we build immersive environments where natural materials, sound, light and movement converge — art that resonates beyond the encounter.
What we envision
A future where regenerative architecture becomes integral to public life, where immersive environments foster shared ritual and cultural depth, and where ambitious participatory art is sustained through inclusive collaboration and long-term stewardship.
Volunteers raised this. Most had never lashed bamboo before the summer it went up.
What We Value
Five things we hold to
Inspiration
We create immersive works that generate awe and emotional resonance.
Joy
The public becomes an active presence within the architecture.
Inclusivity
We uplift diverse voices and design for cultural depth and accessibility.
Beauty
We expand immersive public art through distinctive form and ideas.
Regeneration
We build with renewable and recycled materials and design for long-term ecological responsibility.
Impact
What the work does
Public engagement
Thousands of visitors interact physically with the structure. Architecture becomes participatory rather than observational. Shared ritual experiences foster connection, reflection, and collective presence.
Artist support
Establishes a collaborative platform for artists working at architectural scale. Provides infrastructure for funding, fabrication, and touring large-scale works. Creates pathways for artists to realize public installations.
Regenerative design
Showcases bamboo as a renewable material for large-scale public structures. Expands public awareness of regenerative building practices. Integrates ecological materials, art, and community experience into immersive environments.
Phase 1 · Built 2026
The Resonance Tree
Resonance transforms bamboo, light, wind, sound, and human imagination into a shared ritual experience. The Tree is its first phase: a climbable sanctuary of ninety-six bamboo poles under a canopy of warm solar light, prefabricated across two continents and raised by volunteer crews at Burning Man 2026.
Phase 2 · 2027
The Resonance Conch
In 2027, every pole, every weave, and every lesson becomes part of the Resonance Conch: a three-story bamboo queen conch shell woven from the bones of the Tree, in design now and seeking its site.
See the ProjectAfter Dark
The Tree, lit
After dark it becomes a lantern — hundreds of solar lights breathing through the canopy, and the Windolier turning at its heart with the desert wind.
Burn day, sunset to night — twenty seconds of the premiere. The full build film is in the edit.
Engineering You Can Touch
We simulate before we build
Two live tools from the Tree project — open for you to play with.
Live Simulation
Solar Harvesting Visualizer
Per-panel sun access, harvest, and nightly battery runtime for every light on the Tree, a physics-based loss model, bench-calibrated against real hardware.
Open the visualizer →3D Mirror Twin
Lighting Visualizer
The Tree's lighting design in interactive 3D, every lantern placed, dimmed, and tuned in the browser before a single fixture was fabricated.
Open the visualizer →
Why Bamboo
The fastest structure nature grows
Regenerative by nature
Structurally mature in three to five years, regrowing from the same roots — harvested like a crop, not a forest.
Strength that surprises
Pound for pound, structural bamboo rivals steel in tension and concrete in compression — light enough to raise by hand.
Fast, movable, kind
Up in days, tours between events, down without a trace.
Black Rock City at sunset — the ground our first structure stood on.
Sustainability
Regeneration, in material terms
Resonance advances sustainability by demonstrating bamboo as a lightweight, strong, rapidly renewable, and carbon-sequestering material for large-scale art and architecture.
By showcasing bamboo's structural beauty, strength, and flexibility at scale, Resonance promotes regenerative building practices and a more sustainable relationship with materials.
Through precise digital and physical modeling as well as prefabricated components, the project minimizes waste and enables materials to be repurposed for future installations.
Beyond the structures themselves, Resonance Art Collective has contributed to Guadua Bamboo's Adopt a Bamboo program in Colombia — certified at 20 tons of CO₂ offset, plants #00109–#00118. See the certificate →
Our Story
How the collective formed
Resonance Art Collective was born from a shared immersion in bamboo architecture through the Bamboo U design-build program, where several founding collaborators first explored the possibilities of bamboo as a structural and artistic medium. After returning to their individual paths, the group later reunited around a shared commitment to art, architecture, bamboo, and community.
The project Resonance emerged from Elliot's vision of the conch shell as a natural architectural form during a sound healing experience at Burning Man, where the relationship between sound, vibration, geometry, and human experience became the seed for the installation.
What began as a design exploration quickly evolved into a collective effort to realize a visionary public installation where structure, light, and movement converge in a shared immersive experience, marking the beginning of a broader vision to support artists working at the intersection of architecture, ecology, and participatory public art.
Resonance Studio
Build with us
The engineering, logistics and crew that raised the Tree work as a design-build practice too — for festivals, venues, and other people's art. That work funds the collective's own installations.