Concept details

The artefacts and the TV screens are now combined into one element: the showcase. The name we gave to this project is: Secrets beneath your feet. Multiple showcases are located on both platforms of the train station. The TV screens will be looping ads for the project and the sponsors until someone presses one of the four buttons on the showcase. At this point, three choices are available: learn more about the artefact; construction updates and finally, games, prizes and sms-codes.
The first option is mostly informative; it gives background information about the artefact. It can be a short movie of the digging or a re-enactment of its use back in the days or any kind of story that can increase the public’s interest. At all times it is possible to fast-forward or rewind the movie or head back to the menu with the use of the three buttons.
The construction updates gives an overview of the latest news concerning the construction. It can indicate that some streets are blocked and that people need to take another path then usual or due to the diggings trains can’t travel for a certain period… Any kind of thing that can affect the routine of the travellers that arrive at or depart from the station.
The last part is more destined to entertain the travellers. Each artefact has a different game attached to it (see the “game inventory” for more details on the actual games). To play, you need your mobile phone and send a sms, with your answer, to the code that is shown on the screen. The prizes that you can win are shown on the screen. You can find hints by following the internet link that is on the screen.
The showcases have a fourth button that is located on the side, instead of the front, where the three others are. It is another game, guessing the fake artefacts. People try to guess and then by pressing the button, small lights in two different colours (green for real and red for fake) will turn on in each showcase. The idea was to make a quick game that could surprise people. Bring them to think that some items are worthless but actually are of great value. It might interest them into reading more and even play the games.

The TV screens and the showcases are provided by sponsors or if necessary they are bought since it isn’t some insanely expensive equipment. Archaeologists and historians expect to find quite a lot of items during the digging since there used to be quite a few things on these grounds years back. This means that we don’t really need to worry about the number of artefacts that will be found. As for the fake ones, they can be made by artists that specialises in the making of old object replicas or it can be something worthless that was dug out and that can be passed as an artefact.

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