Telekom Design Gallery

How can fu­ture vi­sion be made tan­gi­ble? This is a ques­tion which fre­quently oc­curs in con­nec­tion with the idea of in­no­va­tion. In the T-Gallery in Bonn, vis­i­tors gain di­rect ex­pe­ri­ence of every­day sit­u­a­tions fea­tur­ing new tech­nolo­gies and ser­vices which will be­come a re­al­ity in the fu­ture. This en­ables them to un­der­stand how net­worked liv­ing and work­ing might look in the fu­ture from the per­spec­tive of the end user.

The T-Gallery was de­signed as an in­stru­ment for fu­ture de­vel­op­ment so as to sup­port the col­lab­o­ra­tive work done by all the ex­perts in­volved in the in­no­va­tion process and in prod­uct de­vel­op­ment. The cir­cu­lar build­ing has a sur­face area of 1,600 square me­tres. It re­opened in March 2010 after un­der­go­ing thor­ough re­fine­ment.

Based on a per­son’s daily rou­tine, the T-Gallery pre­sents the areas of home, out-and-about, work and cross-sec­tions be­tween life and so­ci­ety. A total of 120 ap­pli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios bring each of these areas to life.

The­matic areas, pro­jec­tion space and media in­stal­la­tions de­vel­oped for this pur­pose cre­ate a va­ri­ety of en­vi­ron­ments (e.g. liv­ing room, car, aero­plane, con­fer­ence room) as an emo­tional and func­tional con­text which seems real and in which pro­to­types can be used. A 100-me­tre dy­namic pro­jec­tion band run­ning around the T-Gallery vi­su­alises such el­e­ments as liv­ing sit­u­a­tions at home, city life and trav­el­ling by car, train and aero­plane: this acts as an in­ter­ac­tive space con­trolled by ges­tures, voice com­mands and a grow­ing va­ri­ety of end de­vices.

The mod­u­lar struc­ture of the T-Gallery en­ables con­tent and sur­faces to be per­son­alised and re­spon­sive to in­di­vid­ual in­ter­ests. In terms of its tech­ni­cal set-up, the T-Gallery is also mod­u­lar and de­signed as an open plat­form which al­lows new con­cepts, tech­nolo­gies and de­signs to be in­te­grated on an on­go­ing basis.

Press: designboom.com article