- Rewild Our Planet was
like no other project
we've ever worked on before.
So Arup's values are about
shaping a better world,
and this project connects on all levels.
- Rewild Our Planet is an
augmented reality experience
that lets people go inside the
Netflix series, Our Planet.
They look through their mobile phones,
and 3D content comes from the screen,
and they can see their
impact on the environment.
- Then leave with a pledge
to make a difference.
Arup's involvement on the project was to
engineer and deliver the digital design
of the physical elements, and also enhance
the user experience through
the acoustic soundscape.
- We partnered with Arup from the get-go
because we're immersive storytellers,
and a big part of that is sound,
so having partners that can
create an immersive soundscape
and work with our content
team to bring it to life,
it amplified the whole experience.
- We re-imagined the master score that
Steven Price had composed.
He's also known for writing
the film score for Gravity.
- You'll hear key
moments sort of enhanced,
like where there's a whale
smashing into the ocean,
we sort of add some more
low frequency content
to enhance the impact of
that action on screen.
- It was great being challenged
in unique and creative ways.
Also saving the planet always feels nice.
(waves crashing)
- Having Arup as a partner
on the physical install meant
that we could focus on the
content and experience.
- How do we actually build an installation
that can actually almost embody the ethos
of the project as a whole?
We're really fortunate to be really close
with the Melbourne Arup team;
I've realised that there was a really good
synergy here, and now we're
making some magic happen,
which is pretty exciting.
- So we didn't want to make
one of those installations
that require a lot of energy and resources
to be put together, and
then just get trashed.
We wanted to minimise all the
CO2, embodying the project.
- We had to start breaking it down into
small, manageable pieces that could fit,
not just fit on a
traditional sheet of plywood,
but that would nest in a
very petite kind of way,
to sort of save as much material as we can
across the whole entire process.
- Also we wanted to minimise
the carbon footprint
involved in shipping a thing
from Melbourne to Singapore.
- They're actually gonna
see, virtually, in the space,
the pledges that people have made and what
they've made themselves.
They can actually place it in 3D space,
and are actually gonna see
on this augmented planet
all the pledges that
other people are making.
But yeah, all of these other
people are coming together.
It's not just you, you don't
have to do this by yourself.
- Four years in the making,
the Our Planet documentary,
for us, just played a
small part to supplement
such a massive, massive
cause was overwhelming.
- It's been an absolute joy to be working
with PHORIA, and of
course, the Arup engineers,
to be able to create
an environment which is
drawing on physical architecture, but also
digital technology, to
create an experience
which is like no other that
we've experienced in the museum.
