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Katze Q Escape Room

TU Dresden

Dresden (DE)

2024

From app to reality, the kid-friendly Katze Q Escape Room is nestled in TU Dresden and is built as four colorful monochromatic rooms, the cat’s living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Whether visiting with your family, for a children's birthday party or with a school class - this mysterious space invites you to explore the crazy quantum world, tigerring all your senses.

Within 1 hour and divided into 4 groups, participants are encouraged to explore and solve 20 puzzles, logical games and teamwork riddles, referring to observations, experiments or phenomena existing in this specific field of physics. It is a trail into the infinite world of quantum physics. Very hands-on, with various analog interactions, animations and sound and light effects, this poetic sensorial experience is an easy way to approach a complex topic.

The challenge is, if you accept it – think out of the box to get the cat out of the box.

About

The escape room was inspired by the Katze Q app created by game design award winner Philipp Stollenmayer, who was comissioned by the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials at the Universities of Würzburg and Dresden. The app allows children to explore the crazy quantum world in a playful way.

The main character, Katze Q, is a half dead cat inspired by the popular thought experiment on quantum mechanics by Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), which is known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” – alive and dead at the same time.

Travel through Katze Q’s home, following the voice of Saxon comedian Olaf Schubert, and learn more about quantum science with the encyclopedia "Kittypedia to go" which provides popular background knowledge for each puzzle to take away.

Credits

CLIENT
TU Dresden

LEAD ACENCY/SCENOGRAPHY
Tamschick Media+Space

MUSIC/ SOUND DESIGN
GOLDMANNART, Berlin/Ferrara, Lea Köhler, Olaf Schubert, Chris Abbey

GAME DESIGN & GRAPHICS
Philipp Stollenmayer, kamibox, Würzburg