Wayfinding & Storytelling

Wayfinding & Storytelling

A winding path of magical glowing mushrooms. Enchanting interaction. A unique and beautiful approach to wayfinding. That is how visitors of the Eindhoven University of Technology campus will be guided as they travel from one eye-catching installation to the next. In-between these installations, that is where the Wayfinding project shines. The mushrooms form an interactive system. Visitors can activate one mushroom, which will then light up and spread its ‘spores’, activating another mushroom near it. This creates a cascading effect of glowing mushrooms, magically enveloping the path in a sea of light.

As for the Storytelling part of the project, the team has collaborated with Barry Fitzgerald (Science Communication Officer at TU/e) to create a podcast, containing interviews with the teams responsible for the GLOW installations. Spokespeople of the teams give an exclusive insight into the process behind the scenes, describing motivations, technicalities, or other interesting remarks about their project.

 

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About the artist

ILANA VAN DEN AKKERVEKEN, IAN BEZEMER, GIJS NEERHOF, LOTTE SAP, YUEYING SHI, LUUK STAVENUITER

The team behind the Wayfinding & Storytelling project is made up of enthusiastic students from various backgrounds, each recruited by Elke den Ouden to work on an exciting extracurricular challenge. The multidisciplinary team includes students from a variety of study programs at the Eindhoven University of Technology, such as Electrical Engineering, Industrial Design and Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. Elke den Ouden teaches at the TU/e and is a member of the Intelligent Lighting Institute. Partner: Barry Fitzgerald

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