YouSmash: A coding platform and immersive entertainment event to connect users to live, real-time environmental events unfolding on Earth

YouSmash：一个编码平台和沉浸式娱乐活动，可将用户与地球上发生的实时环境事件联系起来

• 批准号: 10069892
• 金额: $ 3.82万
• 依托单位: MECHANIMAL ARTS CIC
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10069892
• 关键词: YouSmash; coding; platform; immersive; entertainment

Bristol is a global centre for nature filmmaking. An event at Bristol's 2022 Wildscreen Film Festival (supported by MyWorld & Invest Bristol+Bath), called the 'Future of Natural World Storytelling', demonstrated that there is huge audience appetite and market potential for new technology-based encounters with nature.Mechanimal is a multi award-winning performing arts company in Bristol, critically acclaimed by The Guardian and New Scientist, and with a touring profile across the UK and 9 international countries. We create experiences inviting audiences into fascinating encounters with our changing planet.We're innovating to make a new data coding platform. This helps us to create a new kind of immersive technology experience that offers people fascinating new relationships with a fast-changing Earth. Live actions of a user in an experience (e.g. placing items on a sensor) create data sets which are then combined with live data from our changing climate (e.g. weather data, mining extraction data). This creates the possibility for unique new immersive experiences that connect people to the 'liveness' of climate change unfolding in real-time.We propose to test this platform within an installation called 'YouSmash' - a participatory experience that augments spaces (at museums, galleries, events and festivals) with immersive projection. It explores the future of sustainable mining and technology use.During YouSmash, users will enter a dark room filled with projections of shifting maps and images. They will be invited to playfully (and safely) explore the many metals inside unwanted technology such as laptops and mobile phones. Placing them on different sensor trays creates different data sets, which are then combined with real-time data from mining maps, resources flows and stock market data. These are then translated into 'data sculpture' - multiple visual pathways projected around the space, centring the user within an emerging, dynamic, real-time worldmap of mines, metal resource flows and production processes that lead to our everyday tech.Mechanimal has a strong, pre-existing partnership of geology researchers (Natural History Museum), creative technologists and venues, developed through a previous award-winning theatre production, Megalith, (2022). The company identifies an opportunity to expand beyond theatre and create fascinating, interactive, immersive technology experiences about our changing planet. Building a data coding platform, and testing it within the YouSmash installation experience, Mechanimal identifies an outstanding opportunity for strong, immediate business growth through touring and selling both the coding platform and the live, participatory immersive events that can be created from it.

布里斯托尔是全球自然电影制作中心。布里斯托尔 2022 年 Wildscreen 电影节（由 MyWorld 和 Invest Bristol+Bath 支持）举办了一场名为“讲述自然世界故事的未来”的活动，该活动表明，基于新技术的与自然的邂逅有着巨大的观众胃口和市场潜力。布里斯托尔一家屡获殊荣的表演艺术公司，受到《卫报》和《新科学家》的好评，并在英国和 9 个国际国家进行巡演。我们创造体验，邀请观众与我们不断变化的星球进行迷人的邂逅。我们正在创新，打造一个新的数据编码平台。这有助于我们创造一种新型的沉浸式技术体验，为人们提供与快速变化的地球之间令人着迷的新关系。用户在体验中的实时操作（例如将物品放置在传感器上）会创建数据集，然后将这些数据集与来自不断变化的气候的实时数据（例如天气数据、采矿提取数据）相结合。这创造了独特的新沉浸式体验的可能性，将人们与实时发生的气候变化的“活力”联系起来。我们建议在一个名为“YouSmash”的装置中测试这个平台——一种增强空间的参与式体验（在博物馆、画廊、活动和节日）具有沉浸式投影。它探索了可持续采矿和技术使用的未来。在 YouSmash 期间，用户将进入一个充满移动地图和图像投影的暗室。他们将被邀请有趣地（安全地）探索笔记本电脑和手机等不需要的技术中的许多金属。将它们放置在不同的传感器托盘上会创建不同的数据集，然后将这些数据集与来自采矿地图、资源流和股票市场数据的实时数据相结合。然后这些被转化为“数据雕塑”——在空间周围投射多个视觉路径，将用户置于新兴的、动态的、实时的矿山世界地图、金属资源流和生产过程中，这些都导致了我们的日常技术。机械有一个地质研究人员（自然历史博物馆）、创意技术专家和场馆之间先前存在的强大合作伙伴关系，是通过之前获奖的戏剧作品《巨石》（2022 年）发展起来的。该公司发现了一个超越剧院的机会，为我们不断变化的星球创造引人入胜的、互动的、身临其境的技术体验。 Mechanimal 构建了一个数据编码平台，并在 YouSmash 安装体验中对其进行了测试，通过巡演和销售编码平台以及可以从中创建的现场参与式沉浸式活动，发现了一个实现强劲、即时业务增长的绝佳机会。