Future Traveller Experience

At Smoke Creative, we thrive on creating educational content that engages, challenges, and involves the audience in the learning – a key aspect that ensures the learnings are retained, and the audience engages positively with the content, and most importantly, has fun.

Working closely with Cross River Rail’s education team, we developed a resource for primary and secondary students to engage, challenge and educate them about topics surrounding Cross River Rail’s infrastructure development in Brisbane, including history, archaeology, engineering and architecture, the science of tunnels, and human movement, among others.

This learning experience was multimedia and multifaceted, designed to captivate students from the moment they set foot in the experience centre, and utilised all the touch points available in the space, including an immersive 270 degree theatre, a mixed media space known as the ‘discovery table’, digital screens, touch screens, virtual reality, as well as integrating more traditional educational materials.

The content involved students interacting with our Artificial Intelligence known as the Navigator, who guided them on a journey through the different elements of the experience centre as they searched for clues on a time travelling quest to discover the secrets of past, present and future travel in Brisbane.

This experience involved exploration, watching content, searching for clues and documenting their progress – all directly connecting with classroom curriculum.

This challenging project involved creating video content for non-traditional exhibition, including a 270 degree immersive theatre and array projection mapping onto a 3d tabletop structure, as well as utilising traditional digital screens in an innovative way, facilitating audience movement around the centre and presenting different elements of the narrative at different locations and at different points of our students’ quest.