fourfold
Delightful Objects for Interactive Experiences
Fourfold specializes in interactive experiences designed around tangible objects that will boost attendance, drive repeat visits, and increase visibility in your region.
We collaborate with partners one-on-one for museum programming, cultural events, and immersive experiences driven by custom, lightweight interactive hardware and software that will engage your audience in an imaginative new way.
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Engaging Audiences with Novel Design
BadgeQuest
Conference badges drew inspiration from the roguelike video game genre to create an engaging experience that would challenge attendees’ spatial reasoning and provide a unique twist on traditional game mechanics.
SonicSeal
Interactive puzzle-solving game on hardware that featured a microphone, speaker, accelerometer, and backlit LEDs that was capable of interacting with other players using our custom developed over-the-air communication protocol.
Hack Pad
Laid out in the style of a 1980s video game controller, 2,000 interactive badges were fabricated for attendees of the 2022 Thotcon hacker conference.
Big Data Outbreak
Deployed at the Big Data Everywhere conference, these custom wearables educated conference-goers about how data processing and visualization is a crucial part of understanding the complex social phenomena that emerge during viral disease outbreaks.
Caterpillar Innovation Workshop
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"We Are Underground"
Art installation using OpenCV cameras to capture visitors of the Underground Atlanta retail complex and project their images and messages back into a disused storefront.
Let's Work Together
How We Can Help You
Custom Interactive Hardware
From conceptualization to fabrication, our specialization is designing bespoke tangible devices to fit the needs of your organization.
Guided by our conversations, Fourfold's goal is to build devices that your museum visitors, conference attendees, or community members will delight in using.
Playful Interfaces
With two game designers amongst our ranks, Fourfold understands the power of play when it comes to creating engaging experiences.
Whether you're developing an educational or mixed-use leisure entertainment spaces, our playful contraptions can be
crafted to be like toys, narrative adventures, elaborate puzzles, and gamified exploration.
Immersive Platforms
We develop hardware and software in tandem to integrate tangible devices and wearables with on-location displays that react to visitor presence and smart phone ecosystems that can accessed once they return home.
Collect useful data about your customers to drive repeat engagement or refine and update your experience with our on-going design support offerings.
Design Workshops
Let our iterative design processes help your organization develop products internally. By offering workshops to your employees and community members, they will become invested co-producers who bring their personal expertise to the project.
Fourfold believes that fostering a collaborative environment will help unlock your community's latent creative potential while upskilling them for the future of work and technology.
Grant Development
The Fourfold team has a history of successfully receiving grant funding for hardware projects. Our experienced researchers and writers will help you develop your application and secure funding for your next big idea.
We have worked extensively with universities, community organizations and non- and not-for profits and recognize the specific demands of this kind of partnership.
Engagement Hubs
Does your museum, library, tourism center, or public outreach center want to engage your community or customers in a hands-on way?
Building on our years of experience establishing community spaces such as the Idea Realization Labs at DePaul University, Spacelab, and Workshop 88, let us help you develop your own engagement hubs.
