Inside the Maze
(waiting for reception... ah, there it is!)
The University of Constance is one great piece of architecture. A friend once sayed it looked like Mies van der Rohe met Hundertwasser and they had some LSD together. People need years until they find their way around.
There are mazy hallways, unexpected stairs and if you don´t pay attention you end up in catacombs filled with little offices of departments you´ve never known they existed. If you keep going, looking for an exit, you´ll pass psychedelic wallpaintings and elevators (that usually don´t work) in flashy 70s-disco colours. A lot of orange, a lot of red, a lot of yellow, a lot of green. You´ve walked upstairs for quite a while now and the most astonishing thing is that when you leave the stairways you´re still on ground level. Which is called level 6 though. This is because the Uni is built on a hill.
So this of course is a great playground for location based games! I was reporting the other day on a GPS-Mission I placed on campus. Now one of my colleagues tested it. After 20 (!) minutes we finally had an internet connection on the phone - the reception unfortunately is really bad up here. Playing GPS-Mission for the first time this mission was a hard task, since there is no roads or whatsoever on the radar screen... "Where is north again?". But as a Uni native he made it (although almost burried by a rather massive piece of pop art). I followed very unobstrusively taking some pictures of him interacting with the little machine.
