Vlisco – Women’s Month 2020

“To share is to unite and empower”.

With this physical interactive installation called “We are Here” Vlisco will exactly do that and enable women from different countries who attend these events to share their voices and thoughts. Record your video message in the installation and have it played back in realtime on the screens onsite. Your voice becomes one screen in this ever growing database of female voices.

Mixed with animated graphic layers and ready to share with women who are in the same type of installation or event in different countries. Connect them all in an engaging way. Encouraging them to connect and empower. Make their voices heard. The installation was set up during the Vlisco events for International Women’s Month in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Togo.

My roll was the design, development, building and management of the technical side of the installation. This included a playback system for the recorded video's and a link with the custom speech recognition module to overlay hotword animations.

The installation itself revolves around 5 screens, showing recorded videos and Vlisco based fabric pattern animations. The center screen is used for the interface of the video recording system, the surrounding 4 screens do playback of all other videos.

Below is a small selection of the behind the scenes of the development process and a screengrab of the software involved.