S7 Airlines - The Imagination Machine - (2015) (The Netherlands)

Events in malls are the tried and true way of getting the word out to many people at once, but this is a million miles away from your usual stand, sales people and humdrum prizes. In a busy Moscow mall, S7 Airlines’ Imagination Machine gave shoppers the opportunity to see how far they could travel using only the power of their imagination. Part of the Russian airline’s recent - ‘Fly to any place you can imagine’ campaign, the installation put the wonders of the world in the grasp of anyone who could truly stay focused on their dream destination.
Created by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam in collaboration with Tellart, the Imagination Machine sees a participant steer a small physical plane on a large 2-meter projection-mapped globe with the power of their brain. Seated in front of the globe and having first been instructed to choose their destination, users are fitted with an EEG-brainwave headset that monitors brain activity throughout gameplay via a forehead biosensor and which determines a participant’s level of focus. This brainwave information is then sent from the EEG headset to the Imagination Machine’s algorithm that calculates the flight path in real-time to control and maneuver the plane.
Starting halfway around the globe, each participant had 45-seconds to make it to their chosen destination. Once the game begins two paths appear on the globe – the ideal flight path that takes you to your destination fastest, and a flight path that follows the user’s level of focus. The more focused a user is on their dream destination the closer the plane stays to the ideal flight path.  If a user gets distracted by the crowd or thinks about what they will have for dinner for example, the plane will veer off course. But if they could stay focused and guide the plane to their dream destination within the given time, a return trip to their destination is won. This is kind of amazing, guys.
Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam Creative Directors, Szymon Rose and Daniel Schaefer WIEDEN+KENNEDY AMSTERDAM
Executive Creative Directors
Mark Bernath & Eric Quennoy
Creative Directors
Daniel Schaefer & Szymon Rose
Art Director
Vasco Vicente
Copywriter
Evgeny Primachenko
Head of Content
Joe Togneri
Head of Interactive Production
Kelsie Van Deman
Broadcast Producer
Judd Caraway
Planner
Nick Docherty
Group Account Director
Kirk Johnsen
Account Director
Nick Campion
Account Executive
Yulia Prokhorova
Head of Studio
Jackie Barbour
Creative Technologist
Kees Plattel
Studio Artist
Noa Redero
Project Manager
Stacey Prudden
Business Affairs
Kacey Kelley
INTERACTIVE PRODUCTION
EXPERIENCE DESIGN & PRODUCTION
TELLART
Executive Creative Director
Matt Cottam
Creative Director
Paul Skinner
Art Director
Ivor Williams
Producer
Charlie Ledbetter
Design Lead
Christian Ervin
Senior Designer
Zaza Zuilhof
Senior Technologist
Pierluigi Dalla Rosa, Kuan-Ju Wu
FILM PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY
WIEDEN+KENNEDY AMSTERDAM / OPERATOR AMSTERDAM
Producer
Pavel Ananich (Operator)
Agency Producer
Judd Caraway (W+K)
Director
John Filipe (W+K)
Editing
John Filipe, Robin Pijpers (W+K)
FILM & INSTALLATION SOUND DESIGN
PRODUCTION COMPANY
WAVE STUDIOS
Sound Editing
Alex Nicholls-Lee, Juan Pablo Thummler
Sound Design and Mix
Alex Nicholls-Lee, Randall Macdonald