CityWall, Finland

The CityWall is a large mutli-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The content displayed on the CityWall is periodically organized into themes or events that are currently taking place in the city such as festivals, carnivals or sports events.

The technology which enables this direct interaction has been specifically designed so that several people can interact directly with display at the same time; the maximum number of people who can interact is limited only by physical space.

The installation has three objectives;

1 : It aims at creating Awareness and Presence of City Events in an engaging installation where passers by playfully manipulate media and learn about anniversaries, events and festivals.
2 : It is aimed at supporting active visitors and social media motivating users to actively and collaboratively make sense and play with media.
3 : CityWall proposes a platform for Media Literacy which can deliver rich media experiences to the widest audience. Anyone with the most basic computer skills can learn and use the CityWall in a few moments.

This interactive piece allows people to communicate digitally - it would be good if it could happen throughout the city so that no matter where you are, you can interact with one another.

Design Museum Website

I stumbled across this website which is really interesting. There are exhibitions and talks on throughout the year so worthwhile keeping an eye on it.

If the first years are doing the type brief again the following may be of interest... or in fact for anybody who is interested in type.


17 July – 02 September

The 50 exhibition, in the Design Museum Cafe, imagines the world from the perspective of Helvetica itself, highlighting events and inspirational things it has seen - and been influenced by - during its lifetime from the lunar moon landing to the first British nudist camp. For the exhibition, 50 leading designers and graphic artists from around the world have joined forces with Blanka and Candy to create a visual diary of 50 separate events from the last half century. The exhibition is a birthday party that pays homage to Helvetica’s massive influence on our visual culture.

(Design Museum
Shad Thames
London SE1 2YD)



Useful Website

http://www.designmuseum.org/digital/introduction