ENGINEERING REIMAGINED
Interactive projection wall for Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery, at The National Railway Museum
Photos: Jody Kingzett
Engineering Reimagined is a wide, curved wall that responds to visitors’ touch. A combination of painted lines, projected animations and sounds invite you to interact. Through experimentation and discovery, you can transform the projections and initiate related sounds.
What starts out as an abstract engineers’ playground containing intriguing shapes and objects, such as a cotton reel and bicycle wheel, is transformed by your interactions into a colourful theme park complete with rollercoaster, carousel and train.
To generate the initial ideas for Engineering Reimagined we met with young people from a charity called The Island. We took along some of the technology used to make the exhibit and led them through 2 days of workshops where they made their own scaled-down interactive walls with copper tape and electric paint, triggering home-made sound effects and collaging ideas for animations.
“Wonderlab will celebrate the inventiveness and wonder of engineering, science and the railways and it will enable thousands of young visitors to take the first steps on their journeys of creativity, experimentation and finding solutions to the challenges of the future.”
Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery, is also home to 17 other exciting hands-on exhibits as well as live science shows. It is in the National Railway Museum in York, which is open daily from 10am - 4.30pm (last admission 3.30pm). For more information please click here.
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Collaborators
Illustrations
Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva
Creative tech
Barney Livingston
Early development and workshop delivery
Debs Hoy
Sign writing
Eleanor Harper
Sound Design
Jon Nicholls
Projection mapping
Limbic Cinema
Kat Zaharova
Aurora Multimedia
Animation support
Laurie Gibbs
Architects / exhibition designers
De Matos Ryan
Contractors
Elmwood Projects
Graphic design for the whole gallery
Lucienne Roberts Plus_
All the workshop participants from
@theislandyork
Access consultant
Emily Rose Yates
Interactive paint
Bare Conductive
Photos on this page
Jody Kingzett
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