The Experiential Design Index

Connected Worlds — New York Hall of Science

Connected Worlds, a large-scale gesture- and touch-driven interactive ecosystem simulation by Design I/O, opened June 27, 2015 in the New York Hall of Science's Great Hall in Queens, NY; visitors use physical logs to redirect a shared water supply across an interactive floor and plant seeds by hand across six wall-projected habitats linked by a projected waterfall, with real-time visitor actions shaping the ecosystem's health.

VenueNew York Hall of Science
Project typeInstallation
StatusCompleted
Year completed2015
TechnologiesopenFrameworks, Kinect motion/gesture sensors, infrared cameras, multi-projector floor and wall projection

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Design I/O Media Design & Software Lead creative studio — conception, design, development
big-show-consulting-and-management Fabrication Construction management and technical integration — designed and supervised construction/installation, engineered the projection and audio system, devised the modular projection floor surface, handled A/V, control systems, and automation
moey Fabrication Claims an integration/build role on its own portfolio; possibly overlapping with Big Show's construction-management credit — both claims kept

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