Interactive Digital Technology Wing

The Interactive Digital Technology Wing, a multifaceted experience, is addressed to everybody, utilizing the entertainment value of digital technology, along with its educational aspect.
Three rooms, three colours, three different stories in a specially designed environment, where the visitor can «stir» the cosmic matter, «run» alongside the alumina grains inside an industrial pipe, «chute down» virtually along with the molecules of the mineral, «travel» on the tip of a giant drilling machine searching for bauxite, and tap with his foot in order to start the virtual drilling (or actual film screening).

The blue room

Η μπλέ αίθουσα

In the blue room, the visitor can watch a film on «the story of bauxite», a mixture of fiction and documentary narrated by young Maria, granddaughter and daughter of miners from Amfissa, a story on the age-old history of the Ghiona mining region and the numerous applications of aluminium in our daily life. The movie pays tribute to the thousands of workers in the bauxite mines.

The red room

Η κόκκινη αίθουσα

In the red room, on an overhanging screen shaped like a stalactite, the visitor can watch the science fiction animation film presenting the journey of bauxite until it is transformed into aluminium. The visitor himself starts the projection of the film through a touch screen also provoking loud explosions in the universe!

The green room

Η πράσινη αίθουσα

Finally, in the green room, the visitor crosses a forest of crystal rocks in order to drill his own virtual borehole. Touching various sensors, he follows the steps of a geologist until he can reach the ideal conditions for a profitable drilling.

The Interactive Digital Technology Wing was co-funded by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and Greece, and was designed and set up by Alas – Organization of Digital Culture, alasnet@otenet.gr.