A floating stage in the form of a giant lilypad, roaming around the swimming lake at a festival in Oxfordshire.

As part of Wilderness festival in 2014, Secret Productions (now MAMA Festivals) asked Architecture for Humanity UK to build something special and come to the festival to talk about their work. AfH UK decided to work with the Ecohouse Initiative and students from Cambridge University department of engineering to design and build a giant plywood 'lilypad'.

This was then used as a bathing platform in the swimming lake, as a floating stage during the Saturday night procession by Macnas and as part of photoshoots by Prangsta Costumiers.

Throughout the weekend the lilypad provided a platform (both literal and metaphorical) through which both charities could conduct outreach work.

Location: Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Type: Floating stage
Team: Architecture for Humanity UK; EcoHouse Initiative; volunteers
Status: Completed

Volunteers: Oliver Beardon; Iona Campbell; Christopher Daniel; Kat Davis; Alasdair Ben Dixon; Max Eyre; Tom Green; Becky Howard; Monica Landivar; Cameo Musgrave; Zoe Powell; Frank Siepmann; Matt Smith; Rich Strange; Matt Taylor; Rion Willard; Michael Zhao