Encountering Enigma

The Site

This site is located in the northern area of Copenhagen in the neighborhood of Osterbro. It sits at the east-most corner of Faelledparken where Trianglen Metro Station meets Enigma Museum.

Encounter, Explore & Engage

With these design principles of as a guide, three spatial interventions are placed each sub-site between Trianglen and Enigma. As an encounter, Culture Tiles will be placed in the Metro concourse. Centered in the plaza, the Engima Mobile Cafe welcomes visitors to explore digital exhibitions. And at the entrance of Enigma, a seating module will encourage visitors to engage with content outside the walls of the museum.  

Proposal

With the Culture Connection feature on the DOT ticketing app, Metro passengers can connect to cultural experiences between transit stations and cultural institutions around Copenhagen. As a summer activation in Trianglen Metro station plaza, the Engima Mobile Cafe invites the public to explore an augmented-reality exhibition installation whilst enjoying a coffee or snack. 

Encounter on the Concourse
— Connecting With Culture

Within Copenhagen Metro stations, tourists and passengers can opt into the Culture Connect feature on the DOT mobile app to receive information about a partner cultural institution. On the concourse level of Trianglen Metro Station, subscribers in proximity to Culture Tiles receive push-notifications that lets them know about the Enigma Mobile Cafe in Trianglen Plaza above.

Enigma Mobile Cafe
— Exploring a Social Space around a Digital Experience

In Trianglen Plaza, visitors can explore a summer installation centered around a digital experience from Enigma’s AI exhibition. By positioning a social space with seating and tables around a digital experience, it is intended that curious visitors can naturally share their experiences over a casual coffee or snack.

By positioning the modules around a digital experience, this social situation puts people on display looking at nothing in order to bring other curious individuals into the experience. In my own personal field tests, multiple people have come up to me asking me what I’m looking at. 

The seating accomodates for a variety of users. The middle tables can be used by standing children or people with wheelchairs. It also opens up to face-to-face conversations. Bench allow for getting sun while the in-set high tables are inset to take cover from rain or sun.

The Digital Experience

In the central space, visitors are introduced to Enigma’s digital exhibition featuring AR installations around the plaza. Signage instructs users how to download and explore the experience. 

The placement of culture tiles that trigger different digital experiences. In green are visual digital elements like AR. And the blue are invisible such as the bluetooth signals and the audio tour.

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And not all digital experiences are visual. The audio walking tour isn’t just dictated descriptions of what is happening visually, but voice messages that discuss different topics. It also links to extended podcast talks that Enigma hosts in relation to these themes. Not only for the visually impaired, but everyone can get a different type of digital experience.

Engaging the Threshold
— Beyond the Museum

And at the entrance of Enigma, this temporary outdoor seating module encourages Engima  Museum visitors to engage with a digital extension of the exhibition outside the walls of the museum. The red seating module helps bring more awareness to the subtle entrance of the museum. 

Even with those without the DOT app, people can learn about Enigma Mobile Cafe with a QR to the Trianglen profile landing page. For those already with Culture Connect, a push notification will more easily link them to info about the Enigma Mobile Cafe.

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