Bike to the future
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To realize the many goals we started off seeking out inspiration. Our team visited the Eindhoven Museum depot to see the many artifacts in their collection, visited the current Eindhoven Museum exhibit, themed "Food" at Dutch Design Week 2018 and analyzed current trends in the field of museums and pop-ups.
We would be working on the 2019 exhibit, themed "Mobility", meaning we looked into the history of mobility in Eindhoven and the things that changed over the years. One anecdote that Eindhoven Museum director Ward Rennen told us that particularly captured our interest was the change in perception of speed. In the early days of mobility people would cover large distances in The Netherlands by horse-drawn barge, and there was one that took passengers called the "flying people barge" due to its revolutionary speed. This barge went around 7 km/h. Jump forward a couple of decades and we see the first trains arrive in Eindhoven. People reacted with suspicion and fear because they thought it would not be safe to travel at such speeds and that it would make cattle sick to see trains move by at such speeds. Today a train that goes 30 km/h would be considered a joke.
This has continually happened in history, today we travel in planes at dizzying speeds and we have grown accustomed to it.
We would be working on the 2019 exhibit, themed "Mobility", meaning we looked into the history of mobility in Eindhoven and the things that changed over the years. One anecdote that Eindhoven Museum director Ward Rennen told us that particularly captured our interest was the change in perception of speed. In the early days of mobility people would cover large distances in The Netherlands by horse-drawn barge, and there was one that took passengers called the "flying people barge" due to its revolutionary speed. This barge went around 7 km/h. Jump forward a couple of decades and we see the first trains arrive in Eindhoven. People reacted with suspicion and fear because they thought it would not be safe to travel at such speeds and that it would make cattle sick to see trains move by at such speeds. Today a train that goes 30 km/h would be considered a joke.
This has continually happened in history, today we travel in planes at dizzying speeds and we have grown accustomed to it.
The first concept we developed saw the visitor racing projections of various modes of transport from the history of Eindhoven on a large racing track. At the midterm presentation we talked with our clients. They noted that they really liked the idea, and saw a lot of potential in our group but that a lot also still needed to be changed. Primarily we would need to scale it down and make it more transportable to accommodate for more different venues. It was also at this stage that we were among the groups that were picked to realize their idea and for the 2019 edition of Eindhoven Museum and that our collaboration with SOEPS and the museum would therefore become closer.
Over the second half of the semester we iterated to modify our idea and make it fit the clients needs better and make it more engaging to a wider audience. Our final concept is an exercise bike on which you bike through time. A screen next to the bike shows a scene of the past of Eindhoven with vehicles from that era and as you bike faster the scene changes to more modern times and faster vehicles. How fast you bike will also influence how fast the scene and the vehicles next to you pass by, emulating actually moving through the environment. This also means you can pass certain vehicles or bike next to them and get a clear notion of their speed. I created the visualization using and editing photos from a large city archive called Eindhoven in Beeld and programmed the interactivity in Processing.
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Our final concept was met with enthusiasm by the museum and SOEPS. Anna, Mingco and I (Jo was here on exchange) are currently working with SOEPS and a few other students on realizing the design and bringing it to audiences later in 2019.