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Posts tagged "interactive"
Piano stairs

Piano stairs

The pivotal concept is simple but effective: fun can change behaviours. And this is the direct demonstration: “Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory”...
Light Symphony

Light Symphony

Light Symphony is a large interactive artwork created by Ciniomod Studios and commissioned by Sobranie London. It looks like modern chandelier suspended in the central atrium space of The European, the most prestigious shopping centre in Moscow, Russia. it is composed by 240 light tubes interacting with the passers-by and the surrounding space and creating...
Play, explore, travel: Toyota and CIID envision a "window to the world"

Play, explore, travel: Toyota and CIID envision a “window to the world”

Check out this interesting concept realized by Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and Kansei Design Team, a cross-functional Design Division at Toyota Motor Europe: ‘window to the world’ envisions the interior of the cars of the future as an interface for young passengers to learn and be creative..
Guten touch

Guten touch

Designed for the Red Bull Music Academy 08, Guten Touch is an interactive installation designed by Multitouch Barcelona that involves people into a natural relationship with technology. A two projected display system plus a 3m x 2m multitouch wall showcase applications designed to engage us into human friendly experiences rather than flashy and jaw-dropping visualizations....
Night Lights

Night Lights

In this installation design studio YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Gestures and movements of viewers turn into real projections on the facade of the building: they become real performers and creator of the light interactive experience. Three different...
Open Field

Open Field

Open Field is an installation by interactive artist Craig Fahner that investigates the interactive potential of electromagnetic fields. Theremins – musical instruments played by placing one’s body within the electric field surrounding an antenna -are used here to create a week long indeterminate sound recording.
Remote controlled guitars

Remote controlled guitars

Check out this sound/interactive design project created with Arduino by Calum Scott. “Guitar Glitch” is composed by 3 classical guitars mechanically actuated by a series of solenoids and dc motors…a little bit disquieting, but anyway, original!
Interactive browser-based film: Attraction

Interactive browser-based film: Attraction

Tokyo, 2040. You can live it. Actively. What you need is just a webcam and a Facebook profile, and that’s it. Ready for the immersion? Attraction is an interactive browser-based film with a highly stylized anime aesthetic. You will be accompained by three friends across six chapters comic book-like story, receiving suggestions along the way...
An orchestra of light and sounds

An orchestra of light and sounds

85 giant globes of light, each capable of displaying millions of colours in thousands of different configurations. A visitor playing the role of a “guest DJ” orchestrates the immersive installation by means of his movements from a podium, like an orchestra director. Each gesture is translated in real-time into beautiful movements of light and generative...
OLED revolution

OLED revolution

“You Fade To Light” is a special light installation created by London based design studio rAndom International and commissione by Philips Lumiblade capturing the unique qualities inherent to their revolutionary new OLEDs. People can physically and intuitively interact with a matrix of several hunderd OLEDs (large area diffuse light sources made from extremely thin glass...
Sustainable floor

Sustainable floor

The more you dance, the more light you obtain. This is the “simple” and eco-sustainable equation of Sustainable Dance Floor, an interactive surface designed by dutch design company Studio Roosegaarde for Sustainable Dance Club. This special technological floor generates electricity through the movements of the dancing people, engaging them into a sensual and interactive environment with no...