Innovation
Challenge

Find the past anywhere in the museum. Invent the future. Eat whenever you like.

The idea behind tonight

People have always needed to reach each other. Long before the telephone it was solved with flags, light, codes and movement.

The museum is full of such solutions. Your task is to find them, understand how they worked, and then invent the next one.

Three ways of communicating · the whole museum

How you do it

01Go out into the museum and find your own example of each of the three ways. Anywhere, in any order, no set route.
02Photograph the example. Then write why you think it is a good example of this type of communication, and for whom. It is your interpretation we want to read.
03When all three are in, the final task opens automatically: pick one of the ways and invent how it is delivered in five or ten years.
04The buffet is open 18.30–20.00. Eat whenever suits you, in the middle or afterwards.

What an answer can look like

Example · flag A

The signal flags in the Figurehead Hall

Two ships a kilometre apart, hard wind, no radio. The flags carry whole messages anyway, in complete silence. All it takes is that both have the same code book.

About that long. No one needs to write an essay, but do guess what the sender wanted.

And this example is of course then taken and can not be used.

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