The ‘Ships, Cable Cars and Tourism’ section of the Swiss Museum of Transport houses a new permanent exhibition called ‘i-factory — understanding informatics’. The basic principles of informatics are communicated visually and playfully over an area of 375 square metres. The building blocks of IT are made transparent and surprising connections are established with everyday IT applications. iart interactive has planned and realised the various media used to communicate information in the exhibition: four multi-user/multi-touch media tables with a tailor-made interface design, a film wall composed of 48 screens, an ‘i-quiz’, a so-called ‘data check’ to evaluate the visit and to compare it with other visitors’ activities and a play figure corresponding to the virtual ‘i-friend’.
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The Messel Pit — a disused mine in Messel in Hesse — is today a world famous source of fossils, Germany’s first UNESCO world natural heritage site and of extraordinary importance for the scientific examination and evaluation of the prehistoric objects found there. With its paleontological sensations, the pit is attracting an ever-growing stream of visitors. iart interactive is responsible for the conception and planning of the numerous media installations and for the architectural and showcase lighting in the public areas of the new visitor information centre. Read More

The first Diener and Diener building in the new CityGate property development in Basel houses the offices of Gruner, a consulting firm active in the area of engineering and planning services. iart interactive has developed the signage concept for Gruner’s premises and was responsible for its implementation: signs in offices and meeting rooms as well as special orientation and identification features. In the reception area on the ground floor, Gruner’s history, milestones and projects are graphically presented on a sheet of Plexiglas into which a monitor is inserted. Read More

CityGate, a new property development located between the Swiss railway station and the St. Jakob-Park in Basel, is due to comprise four buildings that will be used for business purposes. Two buildings have been designed by Diener and Diener, one by Herzog & de Meuron and one by Luca Selva. Depending on demand, the construction work takes place in several stages. The first of the two buildings designed by Diener + Diener opened in April 2010. iart interactive has developed the concept for the site’s signage and was responsible for its implementation.
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The new VitraHaus, which has been designed by Herzog and de Meuron, shows products from the Vitra furniture collection. The products are displayed in different groupings — so-called collages — in the various exhibition areas. One or more info-terminals are available in every area. In all, there are around 25 terminals distributed throughout the house, both in the show rooms and in the shop. The concept of the terminals was jointly developed by Vitra and iart interactive. The implementation of the terminal hardware, system architecture, interaction design and the user surface design were the responsibility of iart interactive.
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In order to communicate its complex themes, which are often difficult to grasp, CERN has installed a multimedia exhibition in its ‘Globe of Science and Innovation’: the dark, seemingly boundless ‘Universe of Particles’ with its shining blue spheres, which prove on closer examination to be show cases, interactive stations or seats. The miniature universe has been realised by the scenographers Atelier Brückner together with iart interactive and tegoro solutions. Read More

The Swiss pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai was covered by a semi-transparent façade that used cutting-edge solar technology to produce energy that was released in LED flashes, thus making solar rays visible as a creative force.
The numbers and constellations of flashing LEDs and the length of time for which they emit light varied according to the intensity and angle of the incoming light: the LEDs flashed singly, casted coloured shadows on the wall behind and moved in swarms or other formations across the façade. After the end of the exhibition, the cells were recycled and distributed mainly in China, but also worldwide. Today, they are continuing their communicative role in households of previous visitors of the Swiss pavilion.
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The building of the Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai consisted of a flat green roof above two cylinders, in front of which a transparent façade that responded to ambient light was hanging. Directed along a curved ramp, the visitors first went up to the top of the main cylinder, where the exhibition was situated. Inside the exhibition they were welcomed by a number of virtual full length Swiss personalities, who gave them their views on Switzerland. At the curved rear front wall a mountain panorama extended. For this purpose, nine projectors were installed to cover an area of 17 x 10 meters. Inside a second cylinder the visitors were transported up to the pavilion’s green roof by a chair lift, accompanied by various sounds. iart interactive was responsible for the conceiving and planning of the media for the exhibition and for the open sound installation on the roof.
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iart is responsible for the media concept of the new permanent exhibition at the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The project was divided into three phases. The first part of the exhibition, which was opened on 31 May 2008, deals with Schaffhausen’s growth and evolution in the 19th and 20th century. The second part is dedicated to the 16th to 19th century and opened on 12 June 2009. The last part of the exhibition deals with medieval Schaffhausen and was completed in June 2010.

The media concept includes projected films composed of archive sound and image footage, sound installations corresponding to the era which is introduced in the exhibition space, audio stations with spoken introductions and quotes of eye witnesses, and interactive touch screens for profound exploration of history.
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