Mice on a plate

This is Pildammsparken or "the plate". It's is an imense hedge of trees that runs a full circle enclosing a grass area. There is 4 entries into the plate and it is incredibly quite inside. A very nice place to spend the afternoon. So it was here that we placed our next project in Interaction Design.



If you ever walk into the area you feel (or at least I felt) incredibly small. It is a place of scale and. The purpose of this assignment was to alter a public place in some way to make people react or feel differently about it - to change the state of mind and create a new concept of how that space could be used. At least I hope that was the purpose - the description was in Swedish and I was going on second info but the teachers seemed happy with our end result.

So our group (Andrewa, Esta and I) decided that we'd use the imense scale of the place, along with some extra props, to actually make people feel like they walked into a 'different' place where their own scale had really changed... we added giant mice.



The practical implecations of doing this where beyond our 2 day limit so we had to give a visualisation instead. As means of putting an idea in peoples heads it seemed to work - better than interprative dance. Musfällan means "mouse trap" and the poster shows a panoramic view of the part and an illustration of what we thought we'd do with the giant mice if we could make them.



This is me and Esta carrying the sign in. I carried this sucker halfway accross the city. 'Save the whales'. Malmö has a pretty cool workshop where we built the sign - will be usefull for other stuff.



The finished product. We were very proud and sat quietly under the trees hoping people would go see our sign.