TOBIASLUGMEIER
OFFICE FOR (INDUSTRIAL) DESIGN
for PLANQC
2024 - Ongoing
Design, Concept and Prototyping: Tobias Lugmeier
Animation Concept, Programming and Prototyping: SAFE AGENCY / Norandin Becker
All Content, Photography and Visuals © Tobias Lugmeier
Making a complex system understandable and approachable for everyone. Manifesting a paradigm change through a perceivable object. For our latest work for Quantum Computing pioneers PLANQC, exactly that was the goal.
PLANQC is a munich based Quantum Computing Company that developed a revolutionary computing process.
To tell the story of their novel approach, Munich based SAFE AGENCY and industrial designer Tobias Lugmeier collaborated on designing and building the first visual representation of this computing process and it’s architecture.
The first result is an interactive demonstrator of the „main chamber“ of PLANQC’s computing system, that illustrates the steps in the computing process through an animated light installation - and offers a first glimpse on PLANQC’s vision of quantum computing.
Usually being set up in a lab environment you don’t often get the chance to have a look inside a quantum computer.
In PLANQC’s system, the most spectacular part is the „optical trap“, where single Atoms get manipulated and measured, concluding the computing process.
That is why the architecture of this „main chamber“ is designed as open as possible, allowing a good view from any perspective.
Accessibility and clarity are main design factors in order to create this didactic archetype, that will move around - to be seen and understood.
It is also a first step into shaping the complexity of a large computing system and creating a visual appearance of a new technology.
Bringing together knowledge in design, prototyping, staging, installation and production, SAFE AGENCY and Tobias Lugmeier designed and built the first demonstrator system of the core of PLANQC’s Quantum computing system, that is detailed and true to its functional nature, yet tells the story of the magic happening inside the machine - and a first glimpse on PLANQC’s vision of quantum computing.
We are very excited that from March 2025 onwards, the first demonstrator can be experienced in the Future Box Exhibition at Deutsches Museum in Munich.
More to come.