Category

Building Interactive Installation, Designing Advanced Environments

Authors

Helena Maretti, Alexandra Ponjee, Flavia Prost, Chinmay Modi

Role

Concept & Ideation, Research, Partial Coding

"Deconstruct Me" is an interactive installation for the Locarno Film Festival. The goal of the project is to narrate the story of the festival, starting from its rich history and projecting it into the future, embracing new technologies and new ways of interacting with the audience. Since the festival's core values are freedom, discussion and openness, we wanted to design the installation which reflects these qualities. Instead of having an installation for pure passive entertainment, the qualities of the festival demanded to be an engaging installation. The core idea of the installation is that the user deconstructs the installation by taking away little pictures from a screen where a mosaic of images is projected to form a larger picture. These images are the archives of the festival.

Site Context

Site

Installation on Site

Exemplary Installation

Demo

Prototype

Interface & Interaction Modality

The participant observes the installation and scans the QR code located in front of the screen to choose his image. Once the QR code has been scanned, the photo gallery will appear on the phone from which the user can view the images more closely and choose his favorite. After that the user can share the photo on social networks or save it on the phone. The photo chosen is deleted from the screens. After all the pictures are taken, the screen will glitch and form a new canvas to deconstruct.

Research & Development Context

From the research, we noticed how important it is for the festival to create discussion and raise awareness of social issues and events. Therefore, we wanted to focus on an experience that would make the audience active and not passive. Initially the idea was to have a big image of a negative entity made up of many small images. People come there to take these small pictures in order to deconstruct this negative entity. The project has a good chance of being developed because it requires fewer materials, plus it is possible to change the posters and add more smaller pictures.