The Laughing Swing in action.
The Globe-Jungle Project at night
Digital Playgrounds 1: Globe Jungle and the Laughing Swing
There are less digitally enhanced playgrounds or playground props as one might think. Here are two very nice ones:
The Laughing Swing by Michal Rothschild & Michal Rinott is a swing which laughs when you swing on it. The project seems very joyful and the connection of (permanent) physical movement and the sound of laughing works very well. Also nice is the hidden technology, which makes the effect even nicer.
thanks Régine for the link!
The Globe-Jungle Project by Yasuhiro Suzuki is one of the favorite digital projects. In it Daytime images of children playing on a spherical jungle gym are projected onto another such spherical jungle gym placed in a pitch-black space.
Many things about this project are exciting:
- The combination of a playground prop everybody (in japan) knows from childhood, probably as archetypical as a swing or seasaw, with the after-image effect used here.
- The connection between day and night and past and present (child- and adulthood).
- The artists' definition of interface and interactivity
A very nice project, yet the direction of this diploma is going a little further into a much more direct interaction and feedback, more focus on the possibilites the playground props have as tangible interfaces.
The Laughing Swing by Michal Rothschild & Michal Rinott is a swing which laughs when you swing on it. The project seems very joyful and the connection of (permanent) physical movement and the sound of laughing works very well. Also nice is the hidden technology, which makes the effect even nicer.
thanks Régine for the link!
The Globe-Jungle Project by Yasuhiro Suzuki is one of the favorite digital projects. In it Daytime images of children playing on a spherical jungle gym are projected onto another such spherical jungle gym placed in a pitch-black space.
Many things about this project are exciting:
- The combination of a playground prop everybody (in japan) knows from childhood, probably as archetypical as a swing or seasaw, with the after-image effect used here.
- The connection between day and night and past and present (child- and adulthood).
- The artists' definition of interface and interactivity
A very nice project, yet the direction of this diploma is going a little further into a much more direct interaction and feedback, more focus on the possibilites the playground props have as tangible interfaces.