Making
Wave
When the idea of The Wave was born, our motivation was to, together with the Municipality of the Hague, create an interactive installation that encourages people to exercise outdoors no matter of their skills, strength and age.
The Wave was never supposed to be another fitness object on the beach. We intended it to work with you, both solo and in pairs, respond to your movements, and by the light emitted also make you feel safe during evening workouts.
Numerous conversations, field researches, and eventually an online survey proved us that the concept of an interactive sport installation is what people are truly willing to make use of.
Thanks to almost 100 participants of the online questionnaire, from ages varying between 20 and 50, we found out that around 80% do not workout at the gym, at home, but outdoors. During their exercises half of the respondents claimed not to use any sports app since they want to follow their own rhythm and instructions, instead of looking at their phone all the time. Surprisingly, vast majority did not exercise using the beach fitness facilities… because they did not know about them.
With The Wave we want to change this scheme. We want to let people know about the possibilities, and encourage them to exercise using the public sport objects. The Wave does not require you to change the form, or tempo of your exercises – you are the one deciding, The Wave is there to cooperate and make your physical activity more fun. You do not have any plan, but just want to move around a bit? The Wave is waiting for you to test all its possibilities – alone while daily workout or with friends having a little bit of move. Come to the Hart Beach and let The Wave enlighten you with its possibilities.
