MAP museum, tablets
Festival kiosk
Heritage and living knowledge
A heritage that never quite reaches anyone.
An object in a case, a document in an archive, a story or a practice that was never written down, or a digitisation project nobody built an experience around. Whatever form it takes, the same thing happens: the average visitor stops for eight seconds, or never meets it at all, and moves on. The meaning sits in the material, not in the head of the person walking by.
We build a programme that turns any of that into an experience: which single meaning has to stay, in what order, and at which moment it has to land.
Mercator, with Visit Flanders. A multi-year programme across a museum, a site and digital channels.
Mercator, Nerdland kiosk: 1,500 conversations, over 40 hours of speaking time, 30,000 festival visitors, 5% walked over to the kiosk.
Streamed via Hydra Experiencenet, our technology partner for reliable XR on location. experiencenet.com
MAP Mercator drew over 20,000 visitors in its first six months. On Mercatoreiland new visitors rose steeply, roughly tenfold, tracked by hand for now. We are currently measuring how often a visitor actually comes into contact with the heritage of the place.