king talk

Barely a week has passed since the Deutsche Museum opened up the gates to our latest project, the brand new ZNT (Center for New Technologies). This week the Museum published this »Making of« Clip. Can you imagine that it looked quite like that one week before the opening? With a hundred of willing hands working there and some serious sleep deprivation the exhibition could open in time.

via youtube channel of Deutsches Museum

After weeks of sleep deprivation and a lot of hard work, the ZNT (»Center for New Technologies«) at Deutsches Museum in Munich finally opened its gates to the public today. It’s a fully interactive permanent exhibition about bio- and nanotechnology – with an interaction concept conceived and produced by envis precisely in cooperation Haslbeck Ausstellungsprojekte and other partners – introduces its visitors to the world of very tiny things.

The whole  concept is based on 33 interactive mini laboratories made of steel and glass. They provide the guest with information about the opportunities, risks and the fascination of nanotechnology. The visitors are no longer just spectators – they become explorers in this exhibiton.

The widespread use of digital technology has become commonplace in modern science and is also reflected in the exhibition. The entire front surfaces of the cabinets are actually touch-sensitive panels. By simply pointing to an object, the visitor gets access to additional information on the central information display. This interface then offers further explanatory pictures or short films.

Closing the gap between the visitor and the information as directly as possible was one of our main goals. We created the interfaces, interactions and the media systems for the labs and other special units as well as the motion design of all informal short movies.

A lot of positive press feedback was published just in the last few hours. German TV news show »ZDF heute journal« calls the exhibition a »spectacular, new, interactive show« and the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer believes it is »the new crown jewel« of the Deutsche Museum. We humbly agree.

You can watch the whole clip of heute journal (Minute: 22:04 – 26:06, German) or visit our ZNT flickr set for some more pictures if you want. Some additional information and an entry at our portfolio will be published asap…

We have almost 4 and a half weeks to go until the new exhibition about nano technology will be opened for public at Deutsche Museum (Munich). It’s not that much time, but we like the pressure. More information will come…

The Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost is a new theme attraction which was opened for public last weekend in Bremerhaven (Germany). Some current videos about it can be found at german news channels ZDF mediathek and ntv online.

This unique new theme attraction will give answers to these questions while sending its visitors on a memorable journey around the world. The Klimahaus with its authentically simulated climate zones, multimedia-staging, interactive exhibits, large aquariums costed about 11 million Euros and is a »theme attraction« for the new generation.

envis precisely developed the multitouch application running on three seperate media tables at Klimahaus for mehr:wert. Three different virtual books, from munich based company gameworker, filled with informations about the sponsors can be paged through and dragged around the surface. Additional features like zooming and painting were added to the application just to improve joy of use. Some additional media content will be published at our official portfolio the next weeks. So stay tuned and subscribe our RSS feed.