project16:Interactions
Interactions
CROWDSOURCING, AUGMENTED REALITY and PUBLIC SPACE
The project is economically feasible through a combination of crowd and public funding.
The basic economical strategy is to sell each wooden block of the Cave to the public. By buying one or several blocks you become a backer of the project and help realize the public space. In return you get to decide the motive of your own block/blocks, which will be milled on the surface of the wood. It can be anything from the picture of your newborn baby, your crew’s tag or your company’s logotype. These customized blocks together create the major part of the buildings façade.
This strategy not only helps gather money for the project but more importantly includes the public in the building in a very physical way giving them extra motivation to visit the Cave.
A similar strategy has been adapted to realize the project I MAKE ROTTERDAM , a bridge which is currently gathering backers to help realize the project.
The CAVE → Public Funders [Person]
LEARN & PLAY
The CAVE is a member of the Learn & Play island. Read more
The Learn & Play Island is collaboration of 5 projects situated on the North-East bank of the RDM site.
Our goal is to discuss the very much-discussed issue of Sustainability from a different standpoint.
We want to show the RDM-visitors how sustainable living can be not only meaningful but also playful and fun.
In order to do that we believe people need to interact with technology and see the result of their every-day choices for themselves. For instance the harbor water is filtered and cleaned so that the visitors can swim in it. The energy consumption of the whole island is continuously monitored and graphically displayed on EzRDM’s large media façade. The visitors can even produce energy by jumping up and down the piezoelectric paths.
The CAVE is the centerpiece of the Learn and Play island tying the two information centers, the landscape and the experimental housing together to create one whole. Housing an experimental workshop space and a series of wall segment surrounding it the CAVE offers opportunity to interacts and play hoping the visitor ponders about the future of our planet while doing so.
