Deploying an installation in the street to do digital mediation with people left behind and, offering playful workshops to create bonds with passers-by in difficulty, is what enables this furniture te be called «The digital gate».
The digital gate is installed in the heart of the urban space (parks, farmer’s markets, shopping malls…) to reach out public we shouldn’t always make assumptions about their needs, interests or about their age, gender, or social situations. The project is also deployable in indoor places like libraries, city halls…
We designed a user-friendly equipment, easily transportable, that adapt to the needs of the mediators. It can operate in two modes:
– A trolley mode. Compact, this configuration permits a mediator to manipulate easily the elements available. The trolley is also storable in a regular car trunk.
– A deployed version allows the mediator to settle in just a few actions. The fiberglass arch is light and demountable. I can be tensioned and strapped around various objects onsite.
We chose basic techniques and materials to make the digital gate. It can be made from everywhere, in Fablabs having standard computer aiding tools such as milling machine, laser-cutter, 3D printing, sewing machine…
The making of this equipment in a third place can also be a topic of digital inclusion: it would allow to discover several Fablabs techniques and address informatics with a concrete relationship to woodwork, metal…
This furniture was open-source designed. The instructions are available through the link below:
> design-ouvert.societenumerique.gouv.fr
Client: Agence Nationale de Cohésion des Territoires
Design team:
Studio Idaë
Cyril Afsa
La Tréso
Thanks to Ethen Ben Abda and Mathilde Vaillant (interns).
Photo credits: Yannick Labrousse.
Home office: 17 rue Dombasle 75015 Paris
Workshop: 111bis rue Molière 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
contact@studioidae.com
A multidisciplinary creative agency founded by Isabelle Daëron in 2018, Studio Idaë arose from a reflection on the use of natural flows — water, air, light — in public space.
The Studio has, ever since, developed an approach based on research and education, focusing on the urban, environmental and societal challenges of the ecological transition.
Driven by a poetical & committed team of designers, Studio Idaë applies its refined, assertive graphic signature to projects of various scales. From urban devices to mediation objects and supports, or scenography, the agency’s protean contributions always strive at others — their needs, their desires, and their evolution.
The agency operates within a network of local companies and collaborates with dedicated craftspeople to adapt to the specific characteristics of each territory. Together, they work towards the most appropriate and relevant response — between narration and mediation.
Pauline Avrillon, product designer graduated from École Boulle joined the studio in 2017, and works on urban design projects. Angèle Fourteau, product designer graduated from ECAL works on set design projects since 2022. Eléna Hervé Caro joined the team in 2023 as office manager.
Graphic design : Audrey Templier
Web development : Francis Josserand
