Mental sport workshop: imagine a sport where you can only win by thought and where disability, physical condition, age and gender are no longer constraints.
On the occasion of the 2024 Olympic Games in France, Mentalista called on the designers from the École Estienne to work on the sports of tomorrow, where you can only rely on your mind to win.
With access to Mentalista's work on brain-environment interfaces, they imagined mental sports where disability, physical condition, age and gender are no longer constraints to an equal competition.
The workshop took the form of 5 project teams of 5 students, working as design studios during 5 days (one project manager, one lead developer, one lead designer and complementary designer profiles). They had one rule: build a sport experience that uses the brain as the only source of interaction.This 5 days workshop was divided in several phases:
- Day 1: Introduction to brain-environment interfaces and demonstration of our technology. Then the students started to draft the first ideas.
- Day 2: Presentation of selected ideas of mental sport and concepts validation.
- Day 3, Day 4: Teamwork with updates every morning.
- Day 5: Projects presentation and public sport competition at the École Estienne
