Urine candles, a walking ball pit and polar bear ice-cream: the craziest, most fabulous and most talked-about from Dutch Design Week 2015.
10 Things, the VPRO claim, you cannot afford to miss.
Have you never worn a pair of virtual reality goggles? Then this is your chance. Hyperspaces is an exhibition by the Hyperspace collective and offers different virtual and augmented reality experiences, in which virtual things are mixed with the real world.
There is a painting, painted with real paint on canvass, in 2D, transformed into a virtual 3D version, in which you can look around with virtual reality goggles, walk, swim and see what happens when suddenly you can ‘be’ in a painting. Shadows flash by and you wonder what is taking place above your head. Looking around in this virtual world you soon discover that the sun rises surprisingly often and sets again inside a minute. It plays with the (im)possibilities of a physical painting.
In addition to this art research, there are more social virtual reality applications, like the simulation of an epileptic fit. You attempt to walk through a space in 3D, but the light keeps going out. What if you were to have a black-out at the top of the stairs? Perilous, does it really feel like this when you have an epileptic fit? This is exactly what the maker wants to hear from someone who has never experienced a fit. Suddenly through Interu Psy you can enter the world of an epileptic, something that can be extremely important for family and friends in gaining an understanding of what their loved one is going through. Various companies bundle their knowledge and experience in the field of virtual and augmented reality in the Hyperspace collective. Put on the goggles and enter the illusion of another world.
Location: Hyperspaces, LAC building, Mathildelaan 1, Central Area
Open daily until 25 October from 10:00 to 18:00 hours
Fatigued sauntering and from all the stimuli? Feel like an ice-cream, despite the rigours of the autumn (bonus tip: wear a warm sweater and a waterproof jacket, lots of the spaces are not heated), then visit the red ice-cream cart in the Veemgebouw hall. There you will be served by the friendliest ice-cream man ever who has all sorts of different ice-creams to choose from, bacon flavour ice-cream, dragon flavour ice-cream and even polar bear ice-cream.
The ice-cream is made from meat, not real meat from animals, but from stem cells. In vitro meat. And why offer in vitro meat shaped like a pork chop when we can turn it into an ice-cream? The ice-cream cart is part of Bistro in Vitro, mixes meat flavours with the soft texture of ice-cream to research if in vitro food can be presented in an entirely different shape and taste than we are used to for meat. Come and taste it, and decide for yourself how delicious it is…
