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Interdisciplinary Workshop and Symposium 2017: It´s all just air…
We are always in interaction with air. Omnipresent and immersive, the air defies the boundaries of our outside and our inside. With the “It´s all just air…” symposium, we explore immersive and creative experiences with air.
Our focus is on air theories and air phenomena as they occur in the environment and to become active participants in these airy processes.
Science Toys Workshop with Aero Prototype at Technorama
Science Toys – Prototyping Week, 24.06.2016
Wetter und Wolken
Science Toys Poster for Tag der Forschung, 12.12.2015
Blooming Flowers Are World’s First Inflatable 3D Printed Objects
Blossom from Richard Clarkson on Vimeo.
Richard Clarkson from the Victoria University of Wellington has become one of the first people to use multi-material 3D printing and create inflatable rubbery flowers.
Air Momentum
…like the wind
For capturing the air flow, we were temporarily installing a grid of balloons filled with helium in a park in Zurich 10mx10m. The question was how to explore the quality of the air outside the science center and to see what kind of learnings we could gain from the behaviour of the climate change during the day. We tried to focus as much as possible on the particularities of the wind, its direction, force and pressure, which brought the balloons into certain arrangements. Ideally, we could try out this grid as a measurement and visualizing device for micro climates in different territories.
Huiii & Whua
Katharina Herzog and Kevin Benz started their Bachelor in the Science Toys project and just finished. We congratulate and are very proud to have two strong concepts how air and wind could be explored and understood by using toys as facilitators. Katharina and Kevin started their project together and splitter up at the end to focus on different aspects of air. Katharina was focusing on using wind as a medium to generated movement. She created “Whua” – a kite that could be used in the city. Kevin focused on wind drawing machines and created “Huiii” a machine that makes wind traces visible.
From their description: “huiii & whua toys stimulate an experimental inquiry into the randomness and fluidity of wind. The whua is an urban kite engaging an active, playful and immersive interaction with the wind. The huiii takes a more calm and contemplative approach in which the user can co-create with the wind and generate drawings. Both toys enable interaction and contact with the hard-to-grasp natural phenomenon of wind.”
In the videos they demonstrate how their products could be integrated in everyday experiences. Therefore they showed situated use cases as well as characteristic personas who could be possible users of the products. We think that the direction that Katharina and Kevin have taken – generating open exploration tools is worth it to pursue int he context of Science Toys – Science Tools project.
