Domestic Data Streamers, an independent data design studio from Barcelona, put its faith on BCN3Ds 3D printing technology to not only shorten the production time but to also cut its costs for its recent Cisco Live Event.
The Cisco Live 2020 event demanded a unique installation that as to be designed and manufactured in the shortest possible time and least possible cost. Considering these limitations, this job could only be done through 3D printing technology.
So the studio team collaborated with BCN3D Technologies to rapidly 3D print the unique installation required for the event. The
Relying on 3D printing technology to fabricate their installation for the Cisco Live 2020 event yielded remarkable cost savings for Domestic Data Streamers while enabling this creative studio to design, produce and set up fully their unique Recommendation Wall in the astonishing period of only 4 weeks.
Above: Domestic Data Streamers & BCN3D at Cisco Live/Video Credit: BCN3D Technologies/YouTube
According to Domestic Data Streamers’ Head of Design, Pol Trias, “Creating meaningful connections between data and audiences” is Domestic Data Streamers’ main mission. This creative studio, based in Barcelona, combines storytelling with data and arts “to create participatory projects that build community, educate, communicate, and drive change.”
Throughout a myriad of projects, they have worked in more than 17 countries for more than 130 partners, such as the United Nations and Unicef, Google, BuzzFeed, or Spotify.
Trias added, “The Domestic Data Streamers workshop “has been using BCN3D printers since the very beginning, the printers work very well, we count on a very high success ratio, and the support from the team is always quick and helpful.”
Working in a wide variety of unique installations combining architecture, interactive data dashboards and visual, space, product, and sound design, amongst many other techniques, they have often faced a situation where parts and pieces had to be designed and fabricated ad hoc, because what they needed simply didn’t exist yet, and, for them, 3D printing technology has proved to be the perfect tool for those circumstances.
3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY – AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE
This was the case of their latest project: a Recommendation Wall to be displayed at Cisco Live 2020, an event which took place in January 2020 in Barcelona with over 15,000 visitors. The purpose of their participation in this fair was, in the words of Pol Trias, “To create a better experience for the attendees” through the display of the event’s schedule in an interactive way: a wall of clickable screens showcasing the daily agenda. When visitors would spot a planned occurrence of their interest, they could literally click the screen, whose animated image then would turn into a QR code which could be then scanned for more information. That way, “attendees could be easily aware of events of their interest and add them to their personal calendars”.
While the wall structure could be easily made using pre-existing objects, such as metal runners, the clickable screens were a different story: nothing they tried was right for their function, so they needed to be custom made.
Trias explains, “As a clickable button, there is a lot of mechanics involved and a lot of iteration was required, not only for the cases themselves but also for all other pieces inside each screen… and the time for design and fabrication was minimal.”
That’s when they decided that 3D printing technology could be the answer to their problems, and put their new BCN3D Epsilon to work.
Its printing volume could perfectly fit the size of the parts they needed, and being able to send files easily through Wi-Fi meant that the BCN3D Epsilon was quickly churning out prototypes.
Trias concluded, “It gave us great agility when it comes to functionally and aesthetically validating the designs at a very low cost. Our processes were more efficient and much faster thanks to our BCN3D Epsilon”. In pieces with such a clear function, iterating until the optimal design was found was a must, and 3D printing allowed Domestic Data Streamers to do all this iterating in a very short time.”
Over 40 of the main covers -not counting all the smaller pieces inside the screens- were printed in PET-G as part of this process, which took only 4 weeks to complete from the first drafts to the final set up at Cisco Live 2020. Trias has no doubt that this could not have happened without 3D printing technology. For a project like this one, where you want high-quality results in a short time and within a limited budget, there is no better option than 3D printing.
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