WW1 Touchscreen Interactive for Leeds Museums and Galleries
- Touchscreen interactive built for use in a busy museum and gallery environment
- Hand drawn designs and illustrations allowed visitors to design, build and test their creations
- Integrated into their MyLearning online platform
WHAT THEY SAY
“I just wanted say how delighted we are with the finished aviation interactive – We spent most of yesterday trying to build the most ridiculous contraptions known to man to check out all of the different animations, we LOVE it.”
Daniel Martin, Assistant Curator of Industrial History, Leeds Museums and Galleries
The Ambition
Between 2014 – 2018, Leeds Museums and Galleries delivered a special programme of exhibitions, events and outreach activities to mark the centenary of the First World War. Leeds Museums and Galleries commissioned Enigma to design and build an interactive that focused on the contribution of pioneering aviators from Leeds and the affect they had on The Great War.
What we did
We worked closely with the curators at the Leeds City museum to build an interactive designed to help visitors discover different types of First World War aircraft, particularly those from the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company.
Innovative
Our designers created a World War 1 look and feel using hand-drawn illustrations with a sepia tone. Users could research different aircraft by reading more about each plane, as well as viewing photos and blueprints. Visitors could choose to take on three top secret missions each of which required them to design, build and test their own aircraft.
Each mission had a ‘For your eyes only’ brief that outlined the specific features a plane needed to complete the mission successfully. The aircraft builder had a blueprint style and allowed visitors to drag and drop elements including fuselage, engines, wings and special equipment into place. After each build, visitors could test their creation and depending on the parts they chose, an animation showed whether their plane passed or failed the mission.
There were 256 different permutations of parts that could be achieved and each had an animation showing the consequences, including sinking planes, wings falling off and loop the loops!
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