How do you approach someone at a night club? In an effort to facilitate contact between people at a night club, we created a need for people to communicate: to clarify a confusing situation. We developed a prototype for a restroom gender sign switcher, which operated both automatically and as a result of human interaction and input. We explore aspects of communication, question social norms, and explore how critical design can be used to change the dynamic of communication in the context of a night club.
Performers – as well as the audience – inhabit these rooms or spaces. The barrier between the spectator and the installation, the audience and the performers is non-existent. The presence of the visitors in the room is as real – or unreal – as the piece of fiction that takes place around them. The works are not performance art pieces in the comtemporary sense.
