The 3rd i project is a telepresence project, that presents in an interactive media art exhibit, future visions for buildings and places in the sister cities Rotterdam and Shanghai. Students and professionals in two national teams researched and debated about their urban environments and visualized the results in maquettes.
In Shanghai the visitors of the 3rd i exhibition can navigate the interactive exploration of a scale model ideal city of the future, using remote controlled video robots to take a stroll through the landscape. 3rd i is part of the joint exhibition and event series Adaptation: Designing the Future City at Shanghai’s Dutch Culture Centre, part of the Dutch pavillion of the WORLD EXPO 2010.
In Rotterdam, at the MK Gallery, in a parallel exhibition, visitors can control the 3rd i robots at the Shanghai exhibition from Rotterdam, and virtually visit the Shanghai exhibition and communicate with the Chinese audience.
Online, you can control a video robot in Shanghai, have a look at what the exhibition looks like and visit the collection of all exhibited maquettes of the project.