Small Design Firm was selected to create an interactive presentation of great
ideas from throughout history that have transformed the world in a positive
manner, in the newly renovated Hall of Ideas at The Mary Baker Eddy Library for
the Betterment of Humanity in Boston. The piece consists of a set of real-time
computer animations projected and integrated into the design of the Hall. The
centerpiece in the Hall if is a new fountain, designed by Howard Ben Tre, from
which quotations, formed from virtual projected letters, emerge along with the
flowing water. After the quotations spill from the fountain, they migrate onto
the floor as individual words, which "swim" to their destination - one of two
arches in the Hall, where the quotations resolve into their final form which can
be examined in detail, along with the author, origin, and date.