Sketch Umwelt World

teamLab, 2025, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab

Sketch Umwelt World

teamLab, 2025, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab

Color in an airplane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly on the paper provided and see the picture you have drawn appear three-dimensionally, flying through the artwork world. If you touch them, they speed up or fly away.

You can control the plane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly with your smartphone and see the world from their perspectives on the screen.

Each living creature understands the world only through their own perception, so the world looks different depending on the creature. Such worlds constructed upon each creature’s unique perceptual experiences are called umwelt. Here, you control the airplane through a lens like a pilot. However, if a living creature is chosen, you can control them and see the world in a completely different way.

Dolphins emit sounds and perceive the world through the echoes. Just as the sound of striking metal differs from that of plastic, they can even recognize differences in materials. While fresh flowers and artificial flowers may appear the same to humans, dolphins perceive them as entirely different. Since dolphins' eyes do not recognize the color of light, the world they experience may be a world of colors completely different from that of humans.

Hawks can see two things clearly at once. When a person focuses on one thing, it is difficult to see the surrounding elements. However, hawks can observe small creatures on the ground while looking ahead of them as they fly. Tap an area you want to zoom in on the smartphone, and that area will appear bigger on the screen.

Butterflies have a 344-degree horizontal field of vision, and almost a 360-degree vertical field of vision. With the smartphone, you can see the world not only in front of you, but on both sides and behind you as well.

How to interact with the artwork

Color in an airplane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly on the paper provided.
Scan the colored drawing.
The plane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly will appear and fly around in the world in front of you.
You can control the plane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly with your smartphone and see the world from their perspectives on the screen.
Dolphins emit sounds and perceive the world through the echoes.
Hawks can observe small creatures on the ground. Tap an area to zoom in on your smartphone.
Butterflies see the world not only in front, but on both sides and behind you as well.
You can touch the world in front of you. For example, if you touch a dolphin, it will start to swim.

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