[mch2021-terrain] Infrarium A cyber-physical serious game in a container.

claudia claudia.borges at xs4all.nl
Sat May 28 16:10:50 CEST 2022


Hi Ruud,


Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately the container proposal has been 
withdrawn yesterday.

All the best,

Claudia


On 28-05-2022 15:03, Ruud Koolen wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2022 18:22:11 claudia wrote:
>> Hi Team terrain,
>>
>> We, at content have a proposal that is a container to be placed on the
>> terrain.  We, from content can find the money for the transportation,
>> but I guess we have to ask you where to place it on the terrain and any
>> other installation / e.d.
>>
>> So, questions:
>>
>> 1- can it be in the terrain?
> Certainly.
>
>> Where? We can add to the program as from the 'Tardis'  track.
> Now that is a good question.
>
> Because this container is offloaded from a lorry, it needs to be positioned
> close to a road, to avoid the lorry damaging the grass. This limits options a
> bit, especially because the prime lorry-reachable locations are mostly
> reserved for the main stages.
>
> The other constraint is one of travel distances to other content locations. If
> this Tardis track has mostly scheduled content (event that starts at a
> particular time which is synchronized to the talks) then walking distances to
> the other stages need to not be too high, for otherwise people will not be
> able to make it in time. If this is more of a continuous walk-in-at-any-time
> sort of thing, like the badge bar and arcade and the like, then we can get a
> bit more creative with placing.
>
> If it's the latter, locations that seem sensible to me are the south of
> Hamilton field (which is in need of some light content with liberal
> scheduling) or inside the loop on the beach. Both have good road reachability
> and could benefit from some activity that draws people there.
>
> If it's the former, things are a bit trickier; the parts of the field that are
> both in walking distance of the stages and reachable by lorry are getting
> pretty cramped. Immediately south of the road between Torvalds and Turing
> fields, perhaps?
>
> I'm assuming that this thing doesn't need access to running water or sewer,
> and doesn't need a very large amount of power (that is, it needs 3x32A or
> less). If it does need such things, that is going to complicate matters.
>
>> 2- if a lorry comes with the container, what need to happen?  / what do
>> people need to do and what people?
> Not much. Someone will guide the lorry to the location it needs to unload and
> tell it "please put it down there, thank you" and that is pretty much it.
> Depending on the exact location, we may need to arrange some driving plates
> before it gets there.
>
> Does it get unloaded by crane, or with an arm that just drops the container?
> The latter will need more extensive tertain protections.
>
> Once it's on the ground, of course it needs decoration and finishing up
> content-wise etcetera. I assume you are taking care of all that. Decoration
> is particularly important here, as a container can easily look like it is
> just a backstage storage building if it's not festooned with signs
> saying "interesting things here".
>
> -- Ruud


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