he final weekend brought better weather and we went down to our installation to take photos. We were surprised to find the streets were full of people pushing strollers, children, couples, elderly people, crowds from all walks of life. Sydney came outdoors at night in winter and did so with a vengeance. Building on this early success, Vivid Sydney went on to become a major light festival (owned by Destination NSW, a government body) and has become an important part of the Sydney festival calendar.Our interest in temporary public art had been piqued two years before Vivid Sydney when we attended a talk by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007. Christo and Jeanne Claude opened our eyes to the possibilities of large-scale outdoor installations within a local context. To them, art did not have to hang on the walls of a gallery—it could be open air, free and accessible to all.