Explore 4.5 billion years of natural history at the Naturhistorisk museum, Oslo, where the exhibition's lead designer, Atelier Brückner, teamed up with Gagarin to develop unique, innovative exhibits with modern storytelling in the grand old historical building housing the museum.
The Gagarin team delivered 27 interactive installations in close collaboration with museum scientists and lecturers with expertise in every theme. More than 2500 objects from the extensive university collections are on display.
Video credit: Christian Kroh
The Borgarsögusafn Reykjavíkur / Reykjavík City Museum expanded its exhibition in 2022 to focus on the development of Reykjavik during the last century. A large-scale model was commissioned that shows downtown Reykjavik in 1906. Gagarin was asked to bring the model to life using mixed-reality technology.
As the model is the gallery's centerpiece, we did not want to steer the visitor’s gaze away from it but rather enrich it using mixed reality. In essence, the visitor experience is doubled: once as it is with its rich details of the architecture and looks of the city in 1906, and a second time brought to life, showing the eventful life at that time.
Two binoculars were placed on either side of the model, with which the visitor can explore the model. The mixed reality experience aimed to give the visitor the feeling of eavesdropping on a conversation in the streets of Reykjavik in 1906. In collaboration with the client, 13 stories were carefully crafted to reflect Reykjavik's life at the time. Characters wearing apparel typical of the time populate the streets of Reykjavik when looking through the mixed reality binoculars.
To emphasize the immersion in the experience, we steered away from using visual interface elements but instead focused on using sound to instruct the visitor to have a closer look. When panning around the streets, only muffled sounds would be audible. When zooming into a scene, the sound level increases as if the visitor is moving closer toward them.
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We are very proud to announce that Hljóðhimnar is nominated to the Icelandic Design Awards 2022!
Hljóðhimnar is a new experience center at Harpa Music hall in Reykjavík designed by ÞYKJÓ in collaboration with the Children's Council of ÞYKJÓ, Gagarín, and Irma.
Gagarin and Irma Studio were responsible for designing and installing various audio installations in this alien world, where visitors could activate sounds and music through playful tangible interfaces.
https://gagarin.is/news/hlj%C3%B3%C3%B0himnar-nominated-to-the-icelandic-design-awards-2022
Your ancestor the fish: An animation where the visitor can see the evolution in seconds from the first celled organism via the first being who crawled up on land and all the way to today's humans. The story is complemented with graphics that explain the development from fins to fingers.
Losun Íslands - skuldbindingar og sameiginleg ábyrgð!
Gagarín framleiddi myndband fyrir Grænvang og Umhverfisstofnun sem varpar ljósi á losunarkerfin þrjú og hvernig við getum öll haft áhrif á losunartölur. Nánari leiðbeiningar fyrir fyrirtæki má nálgast á www.graenvangur.is og fyrir einstaklinga á www.graenn.is
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Our latest work is an animation introducing the three emission systems being used to monitor greenhouse gases and how we can all influence emission figures in the fight against climate change.
If not now - then when? If not you - then who?
Rockheim
In 21st-century music, technology took a gigantic leap. It went from 15 songs on a CD to 1000 songs in your pocket with the first iPod, to eventually ending up at access to over 30.000.000.000 songs on Spotify alone.
The larger immersive experience took this as an inspiration and lets the visitor browse over 300 (and counting!) Norwegian artists since the millennium. By spinning an interface resembling the interaction of the first iPods, the visitor can pick an artist they like and from there go on a journey by picking related artists that share connections with the artist you picked.
Read more www.gagarin.is/work/rockheim
