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What's going on here, at District Hall?
If you're here, you can take the Touch*Less tour: Interact with stuff without touching anything.
(If you're dropping in from the Outer Internet, you can follow along from home. For context check out Placemaking Report.)
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Are you in District Hall?
This tour is for people in and around District Hall, Boston, USA.
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Ready?
Onto the Touch*Less Tour!
We've been creating a bunch of things -- touchless things -- to place around District Hall. You can interact with all of them without contacting anything.
The idea is to explore the frontier of touchlessness in the post-Covid (soon, we hope) era.
First up: a "Gachapon" Gumball Machine. Controlled by a gesture sensor. Just wave your hand.
You can read the background on this machine, and gesture sensors, in Placemaking Report, Season 2.
More, later.
Credits
Who Made This?
District Hall
District Hall is a platform for Boston’s innovation community. It is a collaborative, innovative event venue, public workspace, and programming hub designed to bring people together at every level.
Placemaking Report
DC Denison is the Maker in Residence at District Hall. Placemaking Report chronicles his exploration of placemaking.
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Backstory
Check out the Placemaking Report. It's a serpentine journey from journalism to hardware hacking. And it's still going on.
Where to from here?
Visit Boston Detours, which is so local it has an item on the very place where you are right now (unless you're accessing this from the Outside Interwebs).