DecorLAB


Educational museum activity
exploring patterns in interior design






DecorLAB was an installation at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, inviting visitors to design their own wallpapers and immediately experience these in actual scale. The installation was an educational extension to the exhibitions '1:1 Sets for Erwin 'Olaf' and 'Bekleidung' which revolved around interior design, lighting and texture.

  • Visitors made drawings at a drawing table.
  • After being digitally scanned they could project their drawings, repeated as textures, onto a nearby corner. 
  • Various digital lighting effects and silhouettes of different kinds of domestic furniture could be selected. 
  • Finding the right scale and rotation for their drawing and playing with these digital additions, visitors could explore when a simple drawing suddenly becomes a believable texture for a living space.


Client
Het Nieuwe Instituut

Collaborator:
Jasper van Loenen (Unity and supportive web development)
My role
Project lead, Interaction Design, programming

Technologies used
  • Bash (Linux), NodeJS, HTML5/CSS, Javascript
  • Raspberry Pi’s with camera’s 
  • iPads with web frontends to control drawing capture and command the projection.