Boom Bench
The Boom Bench by Michael Schoner of NL Architects…
As a part Urban Play 2, Droog Design and curator Scott Burnham have asked NL Architects to bring in ideas for interactive urban interventions. Urban Play is an exhibition and an interactive route along the IJ River. Urban Play believes that “street-level inventiveness, energy and innovation is the future of creativity in the city”. It will be shown as part of this year’s Experimenta Design Amsterdam 2008 (EXDA), the international design festival first organized in Lisbon in 1999.
One of NL’s contributions is the Boom Bench. The Boom Bench is ‘regular’ street furniture with an added value. Since the Walkman and the Boom Box music became mobile. People carry music and play it over headphones, or, more popular every day, over small speakers in their Cell phones or iPods. Especially kids like to go Public, they like to share. The music extends their personality onto the streets. But so far the sound quality of these devices is poor.(via-pixel sumo)
