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Nate W.'s Portfolio

Interactive Media Installation

weBLIMP

weBLIMP is a participatory media installation that explores crowd collaboration in the context of navigation. Participants are conceptually miniaturized and placed inside the gondola of a remote controlled blimp. Through ludic activities, where interaction is motivated by curiously and exploration instead of from external defined tasks, the project creates a sense of play. Participants, or pilots, steer the blimp by shifting their collective center of gravity, which in turn “tilts” the blimp in the appropriate direction.

Press for weBLIMP


February 2010

Filed under interaction design, participatory media, installation, design, embodiment, SIAT, prototyping