Moniteurs has grown in recent years. More projects, more teams means more meetings. With the restructuring of the office spread over two floors, it became clear that the meeting rooms and their occupancy must be better communicated for everyone. A team from Moniteurs developed an object that enables better communication between the workspace on the upper floor and the conference room in the basement. It was to be combined analogously with digital and implemented in 3D printing.
Moniteurs
Meeting Indicator
Meeting Indicator
Prototyping and Product Design
Berlin 2019
Programming
Moniteurs
Conference room and workstations are on two different floors. Employees on level 2 do not know if the meeting room is free. Also an employee forgets a meeting and meetings are delayed.
Skeuomorphism, a style in which objects imitate the material or shape of other objects, forms the design framework around the concept for the meeting indicator.
The concept idea is a miniature replica of our conference room on whose table a job object can be placed. This object is equipped with an NFC tag (Near Field Communication). An NFC reader installed in the table is connected to a micro controller and sends a message to the slack channel of the corresponding job as soon as the job object is placed on the table.
Our project team used a wide variety of materials and tools to approach the form finding process.
With TinkerCAD, the job objects for seven different projects were designed with the most frequent meetings and their abbreviations.
The room model remains made of cardboard, the circuits have been installed in the base. The "table" was printed from translucent material, LED light was integrated and makes the table shine when the job object is hung up.
