Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
Those Who Sleep,
Do Not Sin
“Those who sleep, do not sin” is an interactive experience about Lilleby, which is slowly but surely losing its autonomy. The big, mysterious “party” in the capital suddenly takes up a large space in the small town. Will the residents be able to figure out what is happening before it is too late?
To discover the story, you can pick up an interactive head. With it, you can discover Lilleby at night. Your head can talk to other heads you meet, and you can go into the houses around the town square and see what they are hiding. Maybe there is something strange about the flashing lampposts too? The night in the city forms the shadows of what has happened there during the day. The visitors themselves play the main characters in the story through the talking heads.
Master Project
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
Those Who Sleep,
Do Not Sin
“Those who sleep, do not sin” is an interactive experience about Lilleby, which is slowly but surely losing its autonomy. The big, mysterious “party” in the capital suddenly takes up a large space in the small town. Will the residents be able to figure out what is happening before it is too late?
To discover the story, you can pick up an interactive head. With it, you can discover Lilleby at night. Your head can talk to other heads you meet, and you can go into the houses around the town square and see what they are hiding. Maybe there is something strange about the flashing lampposts too? The night in the city forms the shadows of what has happened there during the day. The visitors themselves play the main characters in the story through the talking heads.
Master Project
"Those who sleep, do not sin" draws a parallel to Norwegians’ naivety regarding our relationship with the EU. In June 2024, the far right made a huge success in the European Parliament elections. Almost no Norwegian newspapers wrote about it. 90% of what is adopted in the EU will become laws in Norway. Is it a democratic challenge that most Norwegians are not aware that such a large part of Norwegian politics is governed by a body that is elected in an election in which we do not have the right to vote?
Those who sleep, do not sin addresses Norwegians’ evasive relationship with the EU based on theory stating how to design inclusive learning experiences for the masses. The project is an interactive exhibition based on the principles of how people actually learn the best. The truth is that the way the world’s school systems and museums are structured doesn't actually work for a large part of the human population. So how can we design for learning for all? My method is by activating all the senses, and by drawing people into a setting that is so immersive and exciting that you don’t even notice that you are learning. I explore this through form in both the physical and digital space. The topic I have chosen to exemplify the concept is Norway’s relationship to the EU, and the democratic challenge that arise when we avoid the news that we feel does not concern us.
This interactive story is experienced in a room where the town, Lilleby comes to life through the projection of my own illustrations and the scenography in the room. The user explores the story through interactive heads that can talk to each other. The performance is a flexible traveling exhibition that can be adapted to any room over 7x7 meters. Those who sleep, do not sin was shown for the first time at the student society in Trondheim, Norway June 12, 2025.
The story is about a town that is slowly but surely losing its autonomy. It is experienced through the objects and projections in the room, and the interactive heads. Each visitor has a head that can talk to the other heads in the room when they are within 30 cm of each other. Each head represents a person in the city. The characters are designed so that they are all, for different reasons, witnesses to what is happening in Lilleby. There are eight characters, and therefore also eight heads. Most of the story is told through the heads, but some is also told with the help of a radio and the lampposts in the room. Below you can listen to the raw clips (without sound effects) while reading the script. Unfortunately the dialogues are only recorded in Norwegian.
Photo: Astri Elgethun
Photo: Astri Elgethun
Photo: Astri Elgethun
Photo: Astri Elgethun
