Cooperative Words

2023 · Interactive installation · Hackathon

With: Pierpaolo Grandinetti, Natalia Polvani

Cooperative Words

Developed during a hackathon at the Future Inventors Lab of Milan’s Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia, under the supervision of Professor Gerhard Funk from the University of Art and Design Linz.

The installation uses the lab’s Cooperative Aesthetics setup: a laser-tracking system combined with floor and wall projections, inspired by Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K . Each participant is assigned a letter and must discover a matching word. Words only appear when two participants move close to each other, turning physical cooperation into the core interaction.

I was responsible for the main program logic, implemented in Processing and connected to the tracking system through the TUIO protocol.

Credits: TUIO11 Simulator by Martin Kaltenbrunner; English Words dictionary; Space Mono typeface.

Participants reveal their assigned words by approaching one another (no audio).
Panoramic view of the floor and wall projections (no audio).
Brainstorming sketch explaining how participants interact through projected words.
TUIO simulator used in the development environment.

Technologies used: Processing, TUIO