Proposal for the Avesta Steelworks Visitors experience

3.1 The trilogy of disciplines

The production of a project like the Meta.L.Hyttan is highly experimental, because it depends on the interaction and cross-inspiration of media producers, designers and engineers. Not one group is more important than the other, and the challenge lies in the communication and understanding of all the partners involved.

The project involved a core group from two studios at the Interactive Institute, the SMART and EMOTIONAL studios. The group consisted of an architect, an artist, a Composer / researcher and a mathematician.

The project also produced a workshop with invited specialists, as well as a separate study that was done in collaboration between the Interactive Institute and the Dramatic Institute. The entire project was done in close and valuable collaboration with the local project leaders at Avesta council.

The project involved some outside collaborators, for example the writer and actors producing the narrative audio for the interactive installation. Furthermore an effect specialist and two architecture students were involved as well.

The choreography of these different professional skills and the their personalities is an art that has to be learned by practicing the non hierarchical play of ideas between professional fields. The Interactive Institute was set up to create these environments and situations to test cross-disciplinary activities.

The Meta.L.Hyttan project is a structure that requires the involvement from designers, engineers, media producers and artists to flourish. It is not a fixed entity, that is installed and run, but more a preparation for content and activities to beheld in.

SMART studio EMOTIONAL studio