Edge of Government

Commissioned project. Created by DECOL in collaboration with Nohlab.
Role: (Interaction area) Lead Developer and System Architect; co-developed the project concept and design direction.

As DECOL, we created interactive area by Nohlab’s direction & design for 65 metersquare floor and ceiling by realtime 6K graphic generation using calibrated data of 6 laser scanners and 11 projectors for the World Government Summit.

As a scientific approach to experience design, we combined several fluid physics algoritms and mathematical formulas to create the realtime graphics for interaction visuals.

The interactive area on the exit inspires people to engage with what they had only observed before.
There’s a real-time fluid simulation flowing when there’s nobody around, sensors track human positions in the area, a custom code helps to generate particles based on people’s position and movements. This way, all the people become particle emitters, generating a power fields that affects both the visual, and other people’s traces of interaction. People could shape their surroundings with their force and energy fields.

Direction & Design: Nohlab
Interaction Area Design: DECOL & NOHLAB
Interaction System & Creative Coding: DECOL

Sound Design: Gökalp Kanatsız
Production Company & Spatial Design: Designlab Experience
Client: Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation
Creative Agency: Conspiracy Sync.
Technical Production: Neumann Mueller
Video Documentation: Emre Boz
Photo Documentation: Roberto Conti