Essen

THE THIRD EYE is a TWINS project of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. The main exhibition takes place in Hall 5 at Zollverein World Heritage Site.

THE THIRD EYE @World Heritage Zollverein

November 13 – December 12, 2010

opening November 12, 16:00 hrs

Wednesdays-Sundays, 11:00 – 18:00 hrs

Main feature for visitors of the THIRD EYE exhibition is the interactive exploration of a scale model ideal city of the future, using remote controlled video robots to take a stroll through the landscape.

The visitors can steer the robots using a body controlled step pad.

The location for the exhibition will be the Zollverein World Heritage Site in the City of Essen. The Zollverein Foundation is supporting THE THIRD EYE exhibition as a cooperation partner.

Essen is situated in the heart of the Ruhr area, which was elected as RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture. Zollverein is also known as “the world’s most beautiful coal mine”.

THE THIRD EYE will be exhibited in Hall 5.

The exhibit is connected via the internet with the project website and with the virtual exhibition site in Wakefield at Beam Gallery so that virtual visitors can also steer the robots in Essen.

Both exhibitions sites also facilitate communication between the German and English visitors, using especially developed 'telepresence furniture' to meet, talk, debate and share with each other.

Thomas Mayer/ Zollverein Foundation

location

Zollverein World Heritage Site

Hall 5, Shaft XII

Gelsenkirchener Str. 181

45309 Essen

www.zollverein.de

Main sections

Next to the maquettes and the robots that ride between it, the exhibition exists of two other main sections. In total there are three main sections:

1. Maquette floor with robots; watch the visions for a future Ruhr and European metropolis in real.

2. Step pad; use your body to control a robot through the maquette city.

3. Web booth; talk to visitors in the UK exhibition.

How to get there

Information upon arrival

Especially on weekends and puplic holidays we advise to use public transport to visit the Zollverein World Heritage Site.

You can reach us with the tram culture line 107, stop at "Zollverein", from the direction of the main station and from Gelsenkirchen. From Oberhausen and Gelsenkrichen with the S-Bahn line 2, get off at the station "Zollverein Nord" and follow the yellow canaries of the design avenue "Designallee" to Zollverein.