Poetry builder

Wooden elements in three languages to create your own poem

© Museum Rietberg, Patrik Fuchs

Installation in Ragamala Exhibition build by Nerves

© Museum Rietberg, Patrik Fuchs

The visitor's poem is displayed on the screen

© Museum Rietberg, Patrik Fuchs

Print you poem on a postcard

© Museum Rietberg, Patrik Fuchs

Your personal poem on a postcard

Poetry Builder as a paper prototype

Building a prototype in three languages

Swiss "Toblerone" as an inspiration to allow poems in three languages

PlayTest at Museum Rietberg with peers from other museums

Brought to you by: Rietberg Museum

Game type: Single-player game

Duration: 10-40 minutes

Used by: Rietberg Museum

In this physical poetry-building game, players create poems based on music. Rietberg also built a digital/physical version, where visitors create poems with “toblerone” tiles near a giant screen that project the poem and prints postcards of visitor’s work. Here you can see the beautiful implementation of the prototype by the digital agency Nerves for the Ragamala exhibition at Museum Rietberg (video).

• How it Works

  • Exploratory discovery of a pre-set vocabulary printed on RFID equipped prisms for visitors to create their own poems.

  • Players place prisms with words on the rail. Word for word the visitor’s words appear on the screen formatted as poems. Word definitions pop up for important keywords.

  • By pressing a physical button, the users can print their generated poems on a postcard.

• What You Need

  • Involves a projection screen with a rail in front, a table, and physical prisms with RFID tags

  • Visitors are shown a projected and printed call to action to place words on the rail..

  • Or simply paper cut in toblerone style to create a paper version of the poetry builder

• Who Is This For?

  • In-gallery museum visitors with reading ability

• How to Get Started

  If you need help developing a new instance of Poetry Builder, please reach out to friends@projectami.com.