BALOON LANTERNS
The second example is to make information of trams into a physical experience. Waiting is great, you have a few minutes to yourself. But instead of seeing people enjoying their waiting time, they stare, are bored and look at the end of the tramtrack as if it makes the tram arrive quicker. Instead, when a tram arrives, large volumes drop down and inflate themselves into large baloons. People waiting for the tram feel the wind blowing, the light is changing colour and an ambient sound can be heard from the inflation of the baloon. The enrichment stimuli of this design are Visual (change of colour, orienting yourself and where the tram is), Cognition (learning the baloons provide information) and Somatosensory (the changes of teemperature, light and wind felt with your skin).