timescope - augmentation device in public space, 1996 - now

berliners and their visitors often question themselves, where the wall might had been located. nearly no traces are left from a construction which determined the city for 30 years. the timescope was originally developed to give people in berlin the experience where this monstrous construction was located, where it divided the city and how it looked like.
by superimposing historical photos and films at exactly the location where they had been shot in the past the timescope enables a trip backwards in time of the presently observed location. to do so, users can pan around, select a date and historical photos or films are then superimposed over the real actual image. 

by offering renderings of the future conditions of a location users can also travel forward in time. a camera attached to the device takes pictures after certain periods and integrates them into the system. this way once the timescope has been installed it expands its content independently.

beside the vandalism- and weatherproof outdoor version there is also an indoor version in berlin´s natural history museum serving as a "jurascope". In the large dinosaur hall visitors can pan around with the jurascope and by aiming on a dinosaur bring it to life. the environment then changes from the museum into a jurrasic landscape and the dinosaur with its characteristic behavior can be observed in its natural habitat.

the project is a common developpement between art+com and buero staubach (product-design).