Easily generating energy – A remittance work for the Fusion Festival

Rocko Strauss is an autarkic, interactive toy for the application on the playground. Moved via rhythmical swinging, this toy generates electricity and realizes funny sound or light reactions respectively. The more intensive the movement is the more crazy the reaction will be. The user himself becomes the generator – according to the principle: “What you give is what you get!”.

The term ‘energy consumption’ referring to our interactive and multimedia-based world lends a face to “Rocko Strauss”. Without being strictly instructive, this toy communicates and mediates its message quickly to the user: “Move yourself!”. In form of a “Trojan horse”, we thus tried to transfer the central idea of environmental protection to new places (playgrounds, festivals, urban areas) in order to inspire and initiate discussions.

Idea, Realization: Christian Guder, Leonhard Oschütz / Photos: Cassandra Mehlhorn, own pictures