Lalalab.org

Our focus at lalalab is to turn around the public space and how such spaces can be transformed by new technologies.During recent years, it has produced a process of migration from physical public spaces towards digital spaces. Our intention is to rehabilitate physical places through the adoption of new technologies creating hybrid spaces.

Our latest project is the Hybrid Playground. It includes an electronic game that can be played using a PDA while traveling physically to a playground where there are specially designed sensors incorporated in balance beams, slides, swings, etc.

At the time of developing the project Hybrid Playground, we had the principle objective to force children to have to take with others and interact physically.

We thought that a majority of children need an hour to learn how to use a PDA and be able to use it better than anyone before them. To our surprise, it took only 5 minutes for our test team of children to achieve this objective.

Fernando L. Mompó