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Blending Amsterdam Reality

Team

Takuma Oami

Student Researcher

takuma.oami@hva.nl
Stefano Danna

Student Researcher

sfn.dnn@gmail.com
Annika Kuyper

Student Researcher

annikakuyper@gmail.com
Ankit Daftery

Student Researcher

me@ankitdaf.com
Gijs Gootjes

Project Manager

g.gootjes@hva.nl

Commissioner:

Description

Final Presentation and Wrap up

It’s over.

Yes, sounds pretty dramatic. And it was every bit as amazing as it sounds dramatic.

On Wednesday 16th January 2013 we had the final presentation of the prototype we developed as a part of our project, in an exposition alongside the two other projects done at mediaLab this semester.

Our project was aimed at answering the question of how to use / design objects in public space to spread awareness about the culture and heritage of Amsterdam. We came up with an interactive installation towards this goal. We made utmost efforts to take care that the installation is appealing, inviting, involves the users and proves to be both fun and learning, irrespective of who they are.

After a quick introduction to the audience, we were the first team to present our project. After quickly introducing ourselves and the project, we dived down quickly into the final prototype, how it works and what it does. A few well supplied questions let us introduce the project better and address common concerns as well. The assigners from Gemeente Amsterdam showed good satisfaction with the outcome and expressed strong possibilities about the future and implementation of the project.

After the presentations we were beseeched by questions and got a lot of good feedback as well as valuable suggestions that will go a long way to making the final result better.

We are now wrapping things up, documenting, adding finishing touches and putting things in place.

Here are some pictures :

Team Blending Amsterdam Reality to FabLab

At Tuesdays and Thursdays the FabLab is open for everybody who wants to realize their digital techniques and ideas with machines you cant find in a normal shop (yet). They have 3d printers, lazer and vinyl cutters. We decide to use the laser cutter, which is a machine that works in the 2D plane. It follows your vector drawing and engraves lines and shapes,  and has many more applications. So excited, we bought some Plexiglas XT at the specialized shop in Sloterdijk. Stefeno already makes some pretty nice designs and we are ready for our first FabLab experience for the (trial) prototype. Takuma prepare for all materials and reservations.


Click here to see a video of the fabrication in motion

To explain more about the concept of the prototype: Blending Amsterdam Reality is an interactive platform to explore Amsterdam through space and time. It blends mobile content with physical activation to provide the user a memorable experience of urban history using innovative storytelling techniques”. The physical object is placed in the front of circus Carre. You can easy connect to the (local) web at the location of the object and connect to the mobile web server. So you can find back all information you find in the object also online at your phone or at home. In the FabLab some experts from the Waag Societys Fablab explain the technical possibilities and guide us during the lazer cutter experiments.