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An Indo-Pacific tactile climate activation
An Indo-Pacific tactile climate activation
A scalable public engagement experience helping audiences hear and feel carbon in the atmosphere, clean technologies and ocean life.
A scalable public engagement experience helping audiences hear and feel carbon in the atmosphere, clean technologies and ocean life.
Carbon Pollution
Carbon Pollution
Sound of Climate Change
Sound of Climate Change
A tactile sound experience that turns rising atmospheric CO₂ into vibration. Audiences feel the Keeling Curve and the growing pressure of climate change through a custom chair or standing platform. Exhibited at John Curtin Gallery and Cosmos on Campus with 3,000+ visitors.
Carbon Tools
Carbon Tools
Carbon Nanoverse
Carbon Nanoverse
An immersive VR and sound experience that takes audiences inside batteries and carbon capture technologies, showing how carbon can support clean energy and climate restoration. Exhibited at Science Gallery Bengaluru for 1 year to 50,000+ visitors, and at the World Expo Osaka with the Australian Pavillion.
Carbon Life
Carbon Life
Mammung’s Lost Song
Mammung’s Lost Song
A tactile listening experience using pygmy blue whale song to explore ecological loss, recovery and the shift from whale oil to whale song. Developed and presented with Indigenous Tours WA. Exhibited at the National Science Week and Aboriginal community events.
Installation options
Installation options
Single Station
Single Station
2 × 2 m
2 × 2 m
One tactile infrasound chair presents the climate, whale and carbon technology experiences in sequence. Visitors feel low-frequency vibration through the chair while listening through headphones. A VR headset can be added for Carbon Nanoverse. This is the most compact option, but it is one person at a time.
Three Stations
Three Stations
3 × 4 m to 4 × 5 m
3 × 4 m to 4 × 5 m
Three parallel stations present the full project: Carbon Pollution, Carbon Tools and Carbon Life. This format increases throughput and gives visitors a clearer journey through atmosphere, technology and ocean life.
Standing/Sitting Platform
Standing/Sitting Platform
4 × 5 m or larger
4 × 5 m or larger
A tactile platform allows several visitors to feel low-frequency sound together. It is designed for high-traffic events, short demonstrations and public talks. Visitors usually stand on the platform so that low-frequency vibration and infrasound can be felt directly through the feet and legs. It can be combined with an infrasound chair or VR station for a deeper individual experience.
Infrasound equipment
Infrasound equipment
The tactile infrasound chair and platform are portable public engagement systems developed with the Australian Acoustical Society, with support from the Centre for Marine Science and Technology and physicists at Curtin University.
They are designed to let audiences safely feel low-frequency sound and infrasound through the body. In the chair system, a calibrated tactile transducer is integrated into a locally available IKEA POÄNG chair, coupling vibration down to around 10 Hz into the seated listener while headphones provide the audible sound layer.
A larger platform version has also been developed for group demonstrations. The platform is mounted on rubber isolation feet so that the surface can vibrate while reducing vibration transfer into the surrounding floor. This allows several visitors to stand or sit on the platform and feel low-frequency signals together, including climate data, whale song, fire recordings and other environmental sounds.
The design makes the experience compact, quiet and scalable. The chair can be deployed in galleries, classrooms, conferences and pavilion settings without requiring a large loudspeaker system or custom-built furniture. The locally available chair frame also means the system can be rebuilt in different locations rather than shipped internationally, while the platform provides a higher-throughput option for public events.
The system has been tested for electrical safety, magnetic fields and vibration acceleration, with public demonstrations operated within safe exposure levels.
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