Teenage Firefighters

Game controllers for a museum installation about wildfires.

Year
2022
Role
Interaction design & custom controllers
Type
Installation, Interactive, Hardware
Medium
custom gyroscope controllers, real-time sensor streaming, projected co-op experience

Three players, one wall-sized fire, and a set of controllers I built from scratch. Musea is a museum about the work of firefighters in Calabria, a region of southern Italy prone to wildfires. To explain that hazard to a younger audience, we made it physical.

Each player wields a custom controller that streams gyroscope data and inputs in real time to a Mac Mini running the experience, aiming a virtual nozzle by moving their whole arm. Putting the fire out only works if the three of them coordinate. The interaction is the lesson — collaboration, embodied and a little breathless. Made with Wolf in Motion.

Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters — Giulio Ammendola
Process 5
Teenage Firefighters process — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters process — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters process — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters process — Giulio Ammendola
Teenage Firefighters process — Giulio Ammendola