Story Lamp: From Local Stories to Shared Worlds
Maker Faire Bay Area 2026
September 25th-27th
Story Lamp is a community-based storytelling project that brings together light, handmade construction, moving image mechanisms, and personal narratives.
Created through collaborations with children, families, and local communities, each Story Lamp contains fragments of memory connected to home, culture, daily life, and shared experiences. Rotating image structures and illuminated projections allow these stories to appear through motion, shadow, and light.
The project began in Taiwan as a small educational experiment connecting younger and older generations through storytelling and making. Over time, it has continued to grow through exhibitions, workshops, and cultural exchanges with communities in different places.
For Maker Faire Bay Area, we hope to create an immersive installation environment where visitors can experience large-scale illuminated story displays, explore handmade storytelling mechanisms, and participate in simple creative activities connected to visual storytelling.
Through light and participation, Story Lamp explores how local memories can travel across communities and become shared human experiences.
Story Lamp Collective
Story Lamp Collective is a community-based creative group that brings together storytelling, handmade construction, light installation, and participatory art experiences. The project began in Taiwan through collaborations between children, families, educators, and local communities. By combining storytelling with hands-on making, the group creates illuminated narrative installations that explore memory, culture, daily life, and intergenerational connection. Over time, the project has expanded through workshops, exhibitions, and cultural exchanges with communities in different locations. The collective continues to explore how local stories can become shared experiences through light, participation, and collaborative making.
