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Nokia: Interactive Environment Design

May 19th, 2008

Nokia’s concept ‘Music gets you talking’ was brought to life during travelling event Nokia Trends Mobjam 2007. After carrying on an investigation about the global e-music scene, we developed an environmentalization project based on lightting design, ecologically more correct, because it reduces waste of material.

Music Soul is a software that materializes a person’s musical aura. A system of sensors located near a projection screen captures the beat of the music and and the movement of the person close to that screen, turning these factors into dynamic graphics. These graphics are made up from patterns of circles, triangles and beams, which change according to two variables: music and movement.

Connection Map, on the other hand, is a system that connects people who dig the same kind of music. During the party, guests sent SMS messages containing the names of their favorite bands. The information was projected onto a large screen: people were symbolized by blue squares and bands by green circles, which grew in size according to the number of fans. Guests were linked to one another through their favorite bands. Definitely a good way to strike up conversation.nokia_trends_v4