BOMB Project (2)

Over the last 3 days we have been doing a bomb project with Pete Morris from Curl la Tourelle Architects in London.

Our brief was to design something which brought the smartphone into the community and enabled people to connect and interact through it.

Myself, Caroline Martin and Charles Stewart teamed up, and looked into the different apps which were available in four different categories: social networking, music, games and photos. We chose to focus on social networking and music, and looking at a way to create an app which integrated both. We felt that it would be good to connect people through their similar tastes in music, so we created 'iRequest'.

iRequest is a smartphone app which involves the user requesting their favourite songs from the DJ's playlist before entering or whilst in a club, they are then sent directly to the DJs database, and come up in an order of which songs are requested the most. (i.e. if one song is requested 10 times, it will be above a song which is requested 7).

When the requested song is about to be played, the user receives a message informing them of this and can make their way to the VIP pod, a special area designed with surrounding LED screens which show a club scene with people dancing to the rhythm of the song. In the pod they can then meet and dance with other people who have requested the same song, therefore joining together people with similar music tastes.