Urbania is an interactive exhibition about city planning in Prague
Architecture platform RSAA designed Urbania, an immersive exhibition about city planning, for the Prague Institute of Planning and Development in the Czech Republic.
The installation at Prague's Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the exhibition design category.
Trained guides took visitors on a guided tour of the exhibition, which featured light, sound and interactive installations.
Top: visitors could pedal a bicycle. Above: some of the eight stations in the exhibition
Visitors were invited to pedal a bicycle, call their grandmother from a phone booth, sit on benches and walk around a stylised scale model of a factory filled with objects framed by cutouts.
Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Praha) set up Urbania to teach residents of the Czech Republic's capital about urban planning and change negative perceptions of civil servants. A model of a factory filled with manufactured objects
As well as educating guests, the guides also debriefed them and gathered their responses to feedback to IPR Praha to help the institution with research.
"Urbania is part an audio-visual experience, part a platform for debate, which using an immersive setting demonstrates some of the typical situations that come up in city development," said IPR Praha.
"Urbania is accompanied by a photo installation throughout the city, which prominently displays photos of civil servants and their actual quotes...
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