Surprise
Keywords : cultural jamming, urban objects, sterotypes, playfulness, transitional spaces, social conversation, globalized society.

Non places/Common Places which aims at exploring the evnironment of the transit spaces and the interaction of people between them. The goal of NPCP is to experiment the creation of new forms of encounter in the space of the transit, whereby individual and group relation might assemble in unexpected forms, allowing to reinvent the rules of interaction in playful and democratic way.

It is a collection of interventions acted out in the central station area of Milan. The common aspect of these interventions is the create continuous feeding between users and spectators of the installation promoting social and collective social conversation. NPCP is composed by three installations. "Narcissus Fountain" , "Rubabanderia-a modern colonial flag" and "Babelizer".

Below is the video of "introduction to the context".

1. Narcissus Fountain



2. Rubabanderia-a modern colonial flag



3. Babelizer



Come Fly With Us

Keywords : new modes of interaction, playful, engaging, entertaining, interactive installation

"Come Fly with Us" project is carried out by Massimo Banzi and dotdotdot, Italy. This is an interactive car game for promoting a newly launched car. Hand gestures are used to navigate the car by the use of a bunch of infrared sensors and pressure sensors. The idea is to provide an altogether different experience to users of car games (existing and new).

The additional potential the project has is:
1. Many games can be operated through a single installation.
2. It can be put to use in searching different areas via Google Earth through simple hand gestures.
3. Many functions in the computer like playing movies, music, increasing and decreasing volume etc. can be accomplished by this very function.

This project was exhibited in Milan for one week, open to public to engage with it. As an extension of this project, google earth was operated through gestural interaction. To navigate right and left, user has to bend right and left respectively. Zooming In and Out was done by moving user's hand closer and far to beam respectively.

Win-e-xperience

Keywords : Italian traditional wine making, Italian regional wines, interactive installation, museum, nomadic, iconic, discover, intuitive.

Win-e-xperience is an installation done in conjuction with Fondazione Valore Italia. Fondazione Valore Italia has committed itself to set out a brand new museum on "Made in Italy" in 2012. The aim is to show past success and present achievements of product research and development that is been carried out with in Italy. Before the actual museum opening, the intermediate stage involves a set of intinerent interactive pieces that will bring around the world a sort of "preview" of the museum exhibition.

Win-e-experience is an installation allowing people to experience the wine produced in the subregions of Italy. This atempts to indulge them into the idea of absolute wine experience.
Win-e-xperience offers to explore the idea of tasting and understanding the various characteristic and traits of wine produced in the subregions of Italy in a very distinct manner.The idea is to the give a feel of discovering the domain instead of looking. It allows people to immerse into unexplored wine domain and experience wine from the sub regions of Italy.

Natural interaction of opening the cork of wine bottle is used to trigger the video which is placed inside the half cut wine bottle. A person has to look inside the wine bottle to see the video, which will give them a feeling of wine domain.

Interactive Cube

Interactive Cube is a result of a 5 days workshop at Mediamatic lab, Amsterdam with some educators Timo Arnall (Norway), Sascha Pohflepp(Germany), Nicholas Nova(Swedan), Giles Lane (UK).

The RFID tagged 'interactive cube' is a cube used to interact with computers/laptops without using a mouse or keyboard. Different websites, folders, music, movies etc. can be stored on each side of the cube. As the side of the cube changes, the RFID reader reads the tag and changes the folder, websites etc. accordingly. The programming is done using python.

This workshop focused on knowing and learning GPS system, RFID, phidgets and other technological substances helping in rapid prototyping.