DONG! TRRRRRR! Or maybe even GLING! Or BLING!, MHHHH! And sometimes even BRAOUM! ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells developed by first-year Bachelor Industrial Design students, under the joint guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of Bachelor Industrial Design, and Mathieu Rivier, a Bachelor Media & Interaction Design graduate. This project is part of the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, shown for the first time, in collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab, at the 2019 Milan International Furniture Fair.
Studio project (2019) with Cédric Duchêne, Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Mathieu Rivier
A curious metallophone triggered by a punch card reminiscent of a mechanical music box.
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A band of twenty chimes beats a delicate rhythm to announce a visitor’s arrival.
A band of twenty chimes beats a delicate rhythm to announce a visitor’s arrival.
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Pull the tab to make the bell ring and the door open.
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Announce your arrival with an energetic drum roll.
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A small orchestra composed of eight vibraphone blades with jumping beads struck to create melodies.
A small orchestra composed of eight vibraphone blades with jumping beads struck to create melodies.
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This wall-mounted bell, inspired by vibrant fire alarms, can be activated with a simple flick of the wrist to produce a resounding DONG!
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Moo boxes reproducing the cawing of a seagull, the bleating of a sheep and the mooing of a cow.
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A quirky contraption that makes terrifying sounds of thunder and lightning.
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A series of strident door bells to lure ducks, waterhen, larks or simply your neighbour.
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A triple bell that announces a resounding arrival.
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A handy key ring that turns your keychain into a doorbell when you’re at home.
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Antoine Vauthey
©2019 ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne, and the respective artists and authors
Event
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Ted Davis
XY - Experiments around the graphical and interactive potential of oscilloscopes. One week workshop given by Ted Davis to the 1st year Bachelor in Media & Interaction Design. Workshop assisted by Sébastien Matos.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Constellations is a one-week workshop held by Béatrice Lartigue for the first year Bachelor M&ID students in November 2018. The idea behind the workshop is to explore the invisible physical process of electrical conduction. Using Touchboards, students explored different ways of giving form to this idea of electrical conduction by creating diverse projects using sound, video projection and/or installation.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Pauline Saglio
Through a narrative experience, Sanctuaires invites visitors to discover their relationship with plants. This project is structured as an interactive exhibition on the great trees of the city of Lausanne. As in a treasure hunt, visitors have to look for the trees, thanks to clues and a map on the app. When they find one, they connect to it through touch, thus triggering the beginning of the experience. Like a wise storyteller, the sanctuary-tree shares a tale with the visitors, telling them about its sensitive experience and observable universe. Urban tree development coincides with the advent of issues related to the ecological crisis. What do trees have to say about this and how can their perception help us improve our lifestyles?
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo, Pauline Saglio
Inspired by the text The Camille Stories written by Donna Haraway, somewhere in the future, groups of people are organizing themselves into micro societies. The installation The Sound of the Links is a fragment of this civilization about how humans experience communication with plants in an attempt to rebuild a way of living in communion with the species that surround them. I would like to raise awareness about these imperceptible phenomena discovered by biologists, so that we can imagine a different relationship to the world than that of exploitation.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo, Pauline Saglio
Plug-in allows you to discover and enjoy music content in an original way at any time and in any place. The consumption of sound is affiliated with the environment in which it is found, creating an intimate and individual listening context linked to common places. The ambiguity of the object will allow the most curious to discover its exclusive content, combining private speeches and public music. Designed to promote a musical event such as a festival, it offers a tangible and different way of sharing and communication.