Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope (a 19^th-century optical toy) and a railway handcar. The retro-futuristic machine, more than two metres in diameter, creates animated fairy tale loops. It activates when a group of people work a hand lever, revealing a lit-up image cylinder that creates the illusion of motion in the drawings. The participants are in total control of the speed of the images, the frequency at which the light flickers and the rhythm of the audio composition. The black and white images recall the earliest movements and are tinted through a strobe effect. They can be viewed both inside and outside the cylinder, so they can be watched up close or far away.

Billie Faircloth is a partner and research director at KieranTimberlake, where she leads a transdisciplinary research team and fosters collaboration in order to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment. She lectures internationally to academic and industry audiences. Her book Plastics Now, On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material, was published by Routledge in June 2015.