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L’itinéraire de la Culture Industrielle (ICI) is a INTERREG project that unites 6 cultural institutions, 3 on the French side and 3 on the Belgian side. This project intends to valorize the heritage and industrial culture of the Nord-Pas de Calais - Hainaut mining basin.

The digital tools implemented for the ICI help the exploration of this complex territory.

• The website and its 3D map prepare the visit.
• The Mobil'ICI guide accompanies the visitor onsite in his discovery of the territory. It is declined in 30 routes each containing about twenty points of interest. The guide unfolds disappeared soundscapes and reveals hidden dimensions of the territory. It allows to see in the past, to look through the walls or the ground, to build a map, to participate in an observatory... So many original ways to discover a major territory of urban exploration.

Credits & partners

Diffusion Le Pass
Partners Le Pass, Le Bois du Cazier, Le Bois du Luc, Le 9-9bis Oignies, 11-19 Loos en Gohelle, la CAHC

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Open Unesco is a permanent exhibition presented at the UNESCO Headquarters at Suffren Hall. The exhibition unveils the institution to the public through 7 themes. On this occasion, Orbe produced two multitouch cartographic tables presenting the Unesco programs in the World, as well as seven touch tablets carried by the statues of the Great Actors of UNESCO and revealing to the public the many faces of the institution.

Credits & partners

Diffusion UNESCO

Open UNESCO en images

During the three weeks of the Avignon Festival 2009, an interactive 3D map of the city of Avignon was fed with video, sound and images in real time by the reporters of Arte. The main idea of the project was to evoke the effervescence of the event through multiple points of view. The 3D model is more evocative than realistic to get closer to the experience while facilitating the reading of the map.

Credits & partners

Diffusion Arte.tv
Partner  ESII 

Images of Avignon, Lanscapes of the Festival

The project Digital extension of the Marseille History Museum is declined in two parts :

• The design and implementation of an augmented reality mobile and tablet app proposing a course entitled "The augmented walk" and retracing the maritime and port history of Marseille from its origins to the present day.

• The development and launch of an internet platform dedicated to the history and heritage of the city of Marseille, to prepare the visit of the museum and the augmented walk. This platform has an interactive map to navigate within a modeled representation of the Historic Way of Marseille and its immediate surroundings.

Credits & partners

Diffusion Marseille History Museum
Partners Les Films du Soleil, Innovision

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Children Odyssey is a space for children between 7 and 12 years. An interactive and playful route is offered to young visitors allowing them to acquire knowledge about the museum's collections and to discover the permanent exhibition of the Mediterranean gallery. This experience features the Greek Hero Ulysses held by the nymph Calypso. The children's mission is to free him by collecting clues and answering riddles.

The route contains a 3 minute long film, a series of 7 manipulations and a touch app for tablet that accompanies the children while they are visiting the permanent collections.

Credits & partners

Diffusion Mucem
Partners Supamonks, Veroliv

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Water Topophony sets up a soundscape composed of water streams in an urban space. The slopes of Belleville in Paris evoke the winding paths of the water to the names of the streets: rue des Cascades, rue des Rigoles, rue de la Duée. Two realities are superimposed on this territory: a mineral space that is essential on the surface, an invisible liquid space made up of sources and aqueducts in the basement. Water Topophony proposes to evoke this liquid space on the surface by staging a navigable soundscape using a smartphone-type mobile phone. The device thus encourages the user to explore and reveals hidden dimensions of a familiar urban space.

Orbe won Grand Prix of Innovation of the city of Paris 2013 with a special Design Mention for Water Topophony.

Credits & partners

Diffusion Orbe
Partners IRCAM, ENSCI-les Ateliers, LIMSI, Navidis, User Studio

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The BSI Guide is a mobile device for the support of informal learning in libraries for UNIVERSCIENCES. The visitor is geolocated on a 3D map, where he can launch a search, view the results on the map and access the presentation sheets for each document.

Credits

Partner Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie 

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The sonosphere of Musée of Confluences offer a sound walki in the 20000 m2 of the museum.
Specific commentaries by specialists describe the history of objects, their restoration, their meanings.

Credits

Sponsor Musée des Confluences
Partner Audiovisit 

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Conception and realization of tour companions for the museum of prehistory of Quinson and the Gardens of Salagon. The visitor is geo-located in an oriented 3D map. He can access a large variety of contents with synchronized sounds and videos, and a light and sound show.

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Sponsor Department council of Alpes de Haute-Provence
Partner Audiovisit 

Alpes de Haute-Provence Museums

The application Van Gogh Natures is a geo-localized multimedia guide allowing to discover the work of Vincent van Gogh through the landscapes he has painted. The works of the painter are placed in their context, along the visit to Auvers-sur-Oise and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. With his smartphone, the visitor finds the gaze of the painter, thanks to a superposition of each work with its original frame. This augmented reality approach allows Vincent van Gogh's landscapes to interact with the current territories to reveal their sensitive dimension. The Van Gogh Natures app is available in 5 European languages as well as in Japanese.

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Sponsor County Council of the Alpes de Haute-Provence
Partner Audiovisit 

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The Learning Center "Sustainable City" is located in Halle aux Sucres of the Dunkirk port area. As part of this project, Orbe has realized all the multimedia installations including the participatory device "Tracking of the Inhabitants": an interactive map of the daily travels of the inhabitants, fed by a mobile application.

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Sponsor Learning Center of Dunkirk Urban Community, Dunkirk Urban Community, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region

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Topophonie is a research program within CONTINT (Digital Contents and Interactions)

Topophonie focuses on sound navigation in the flow and masses of spatialized audio-graphic events. The goal of the project is to design and develop navigable audiographic models, interfaces and audiographic renderings of sets of corpuscular, animated and spatialized objects. The non-punctual aspect of composite objects, their audiographic behavior and the navigation in which they are expressed are the three inextricably linked criteria that give the project its specificity.

The project team is made up of sound and visual researchers, designers, artists and companies specialized in the fields of the concerned fields.

Within the framework of Topophonie, Orbe designed and realized creation tools prototypes intenter to a general audience such as Water Topophony

Orbe won Grand Prix of Innovation of the city of Paris 2013 with a special Design Mention for Water Topophony.

Credits & partners

Support ANR
Partners IRCAM, ENSCI-les Ateliers, LIMSI, Navidis, User Studio

The most beautiful natural sites of Essonne are unveiled over an application to discover the unsuspected diversity that shelter forests, marshes, moors, parks, gardens and remarkable geological sites of Essonne.

The mobile app Balades en Essonne allows to discover the natural heritage of the department through 6 routes of excursion, and gives access to many points of interests all along these circuits to explore the different biotopes and elements of inheritance.

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Partners Essonne

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