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Photo Credit: © 2000, WTG Associates, LLC and Gavin Peters

RIDE THE WIND GALLERY IN EXPLORATION PLACE (WICHITA, KS)
A couple works together at a video animation stand to create images of flying on-screen. This is just one of many ways that visitors can creatively explore flight and design. Ride the Wind is one of thirteen program galleries and theaters recently executive produced by White Oak Associates. Designed by Gyroscope, Inc. (Oakland, CA) and built by Maltbie Associates (Mount Laurel, NJ) the interactive exhibits in this gallery are framed by the curved and soaring Wind Wall, seen here in the upper left of the picture. Conceived by artist Ned Kahn of Ned Kahn Studios (Sebastopol, CA), the Wind Wall is composed of 350,000 tiny reflective disks that dramatize every wind current in the room. In the center of the sweeping arc of mirrored disks is a tower (top center) with propellers and fans operated by visitors to explore and see the effects of wind.