About
Harmonic Orbiter is a kinetic sculpture that transforms shared movement into a collective experience.
Harmonic Orbiter is an immersive, human-powered sculpture designed to be moved, explored, and experienced together.
Balanced on a single point, the structure responds directly to the movement of the people inside it. As participants shift their weight, the sculpture begins to rock and tilt. Internal counterweights roll along circular rails, amplifying and smoothing this motion into slow, continuous orbits.
What begins as small, individual movements quickly becomes a shared system. A few people can gently set it in motion, while larger groups can build rhythm, coordination, and momentum together.
Inside, the sculpture offers multiple ways to engage—seating for rest, elevated positions for leverage, and a climbable upper layer that allows participants to experience the motion from above. The space is both active and contemplative, inviting play, experimentation, and pause.
Harmonic Orbiter is ultimately about connection. It creates a setting where strangers can collaborate without words—learning to move together, find balance, and generate something larger than themselves.
Philosophy
We Are Orbiters
An arts collective based in Cambridge, MA.
We’re building a giant interactive sculpture for Burning Man 2026, and bringing a community along with us.
Orbiters is a collective of artists, architects, musicians, builders, and organizers creating large-scale, participatory work. Our current project, Harmonic Orbiter, is just the beginning.
Through build sessions, events, and collaborations, we’re creating spaces for people to gather, experiment, and contribute to something bigger than themselves.
Our community beliefs reflect those of the burn and rave communities
Orbiters is open to anyone who wants to participate.
No prior experience is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to contribute.
We create space for people of all backgrounds and skill levels to join the process, share knowledge, and help shape the work.
We invite people to show up as they are.
Whether through building, performing, designing, or experimenting, every contribution adds to the collective.
We create with care—for each other, our collaborators, and the spaces we share.
Mutual respect is the foundation that allows trust, creativity, and community to grow.
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
We aim to build responsibly—minimizing waste, sourcing locally, and designing for reuse beyond a single event.
The project is created with its full lifecycle in mind.
