The Purplewood Hill installation is an interactive story based on the book. Three animals, the wolf, the raven and the spider are witnesses to a few scenes in the book. They perceive what is going on by their animal senses, coloured by their animal characters. The audience is invited to listen to their stories by putting the animals in certain locations. The installation was built with the technical assistance of Danny van den Munckhof and Max Malherbe, using RIFD technology. Max van Kollenburg lent his voice to make the animals come to life.
Purplewood Hill is a spatial interactive story installation, based on Nina Kramer’s novel Purplewood Hill. Through the senses of animals, you are invited to participate in some scenes of the book. The animals are not a part of the story but mere witnesses. Communication & Multimedia Design/Breda – Avans Hogeschool (the Netherlands) students Max Malherbe and Danny van den Munckhof are the technical brains who made it all work. Max van Kollenburg participated as a voice actor.
The story-driven installation Labyrinth has yet to be built. The first weekend of February 2018 around 15 students of both CMD/Breda and Cambridge School of Art will be breaking their brains on the concept in a Hackathon. Keywords will be; Story, Interactive, Spatial, Labyrinth. Based on this concept the installation will be coordinated, build and in both countries and put together in April for the show.
Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/185048918917654/
I designed and animated the wolf character from the Purplewood Hill book for the exhibition. The installments that will be part of the Dutch Design Week 2018, showing at the Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven: https://punt.avans.nl/2018/05/creatieve-studenten-zijn-stronteigenwijs-maar-het-is-een-super-tentoonstelling-geworden/
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Behind the scenes highlights:
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODY2OTQwMjEyMjQyMDYy/
Article on the exhibition: http://www.methodcreative.co.uk/news/the-art-of-storytelling/