Mapping Modernism Installation. Design Museum Helsinki. from (*_*)lau on Vimeo.
Mapping Modernism is an interactive installation, which provides museum visitors with an interesting way to explore information behind some of the exhibition items. Interaction is possible through physical objects which represent selected designers.
When they are placed on the table their movements are tracked and related digital information displayed.
The goal of the installation is to let the visitors experience and learn about relationships and connections between designers, artists and artifacts that shaped modernism.
By visualizing these convergence points, the user gets a sense of the larger picture of Modernism that designed much of the world we currently live in.
One of our aims is to introduce a novel interface experience to the classical museum setting. We want to challenge the traditional way (i.e. textual captions) of displaying exhibition related information in a museum. We believe that a simple and highly visual interactive system entices the visitors to explore this information, to play with it, and while doing so, to learn from it.
The installation will be displayed till end of May 2010 at the Design Museum of Helsinki.
Mapping Modernism is based on sophisticated image recognition software called ReacTIVision
Credits:
Sampo Jalasto. Concept. User Interface Graphics.
Agnieszka Paszkowska. Concept.Content. Material selection.
Laura Sebastián Magaña. Concept. Content. Graphic design. Spatial design.
Akira Sano. Concept. Hardware Assembly. Recognition Calibration.
Reha Discioglu. Concept.
Matti Schneider-Ghibaudo. UI Programming. Hardware and Recognition Testing.
Professor Lily Díaz. Supervisor
