Apollo Creative provides expertise built-up from over 10 years working in the area of interactive technology. With past projects covering artistic installations, museum interactives, touring exhibitions and sensory rooms, Apollo staff can fulfill a variety of project roles. From providing consultancy services to managing complex projects and designing, installing, commissioning and training.
Details of ongoing project work can be found on our blog at: http://apollocreative.blogspot.com
Current Projects
Gordon Parry Centre, Leeds
Development of an interactive light and sound room.
Predominantly intended for music based activities and designed for a wide range of users. Apollo has worked with a specialist lighting company to provide a flexible environment with a variety of lighting effects. The room is controlled by the users, with sensors and switches linked to lighting and music effects. The room can be themed by the use of the Apollo Ensemble system.
Phyzzikids, Portable Sensory Space, KidsOut
A temporary Sensory Room that can be built in a school or other location and left for a period of 2-3 months.
This innovative mobile space is a complete room that can be built in a larger environment, for example part of a school hall, a village hall or a spare classroom. The main structure is very flexible allowing positioning of a range of effects including lighting, sound and sensory equipment. The room includes a bubble tube, fibre optic unit and interactive sound equipment from the Apollo range.
Apollo have designed the system in collaboration with a professional lighting company and KidsOut. It is currently undergoing evaluation at a school in Reading, with two further units currently under construction. More information on our blog and at KidsOut.
Mobile Sensory Unit, Creative Projects/KidsOut
An interactive sound and light space that can be erected in a few minutes and be used for a wide range of creative projects.
Another project with KidsOut and one of their project partners in the North East. This is a scaled down version of the fixed space designed for the Gordon Parry Centre. It provides a range of lighting and sound effects that enables the users to create flexible multisensory spaces for storytelling, play and music based activities. At the core is the Apollo Ensemble, allowing sensors and switches to be linked to sound and light.
Based around two wheeled flightcases, it is transported as part of a Media Bus. The prototype Mobile Units are currently being trialled by Creative Projects in Hull.
Past Projects
Fountaineers, Futurelab (Jan 07- Jul 08)
Providing expertise and consultancy on the design and development of an interactive fountain.
Using previous experience of designing and building interactive fountains, Mark Hildred has been providing a range of support for this project. This has included a number of sesions within the school, from school assemblies through to workshops with each class. Using the Apollo Ensemble, Mark has been able to demonstrate control of fountain jets from sensors long before the installation of the actual fountain on site. This helped enable the children to make decisions about the final form and function of the fountain.
The fountain was installed in the school during Easter 2008 and was officially launched in July. More information on this project can be found on our projects blog - Fountaineers Project Blog.
The Fountaineers Project is run by Futurelab.