This project was developed in the summer semester of 2019 in the interface- and interaction-design class of Professor Kora Kimpel at the Berlin University of the Arts.
It is an interactive shape-changing display that is activated by built-in sensors that measure the movement in the room. Peaks and valleys are created from the stretched material creating a changing, moving landscape through which you can navigate dancing marbles of different sizes and weight.
The object is 40 x 40 cm x 15 cm and mainly made of transparent acrylic glass. For the display itself I used a very stretchy fabric which is a kind of scuba fabric. The fabric is attached to solid parts, which are mounted onto five motorised sliding potentiometers usually used in the music industry for sound mixers. The motors are activated by movement around the object peaks are formed by moving closer to the display; valleys are created by moving away from the object and the ultrasonic distance sensors.
The idea is to navigate the different marbles through the maze by moving around the display on your own it is of course much more difficult than when there are two or three or maybe even four people helping the marbles to find their way a visualisation of how things are a lot easier when people help each other and work together.
