The Piano Stairway (video)

Posted on October 30, 2009 by | 7 Comments

An awesome experiment in Stockholm, Sweden where students changed stairs in a subway station into a piano:

And? More people started using the stairs than the escalator! It’s just more fun!

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7 responses to “The Piano Stairway (video)”

  1. Kevin H's avatar Kevin H | October 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm |

    pertty cool. I wonder how long it takes people to habituate and start picking the escalator again. Combining long term data with something like face recognition would be really cool.

  2. peg1's avatar peg1 | October 31, 2009 at 2:55 am |

    hmmm… maybe this could make a dent in the US’ obesity problem….

  3. Erin's avatar Erin | October 31, 2009 at 6:40 am |

    Aw, I’d use it. Even if I were tired and stressed, I’d take to the stairs if it made a cheery noise with every footfall. That would do more to alleviate my exhaustion than a trip up the escalator.

  4. Sojournposse's avatar Sojournposse | October 31, 2009 at 9:36 am |

    I love this campaign. Definitely gonna use this video, and the rest of the VW/Tribal DBB campaign, to inspire my anthropology project at UCL.

  5. Pam Ronald's avatar Pam Ronald | October 31, 2009 at 7:52 pm |

    With more ideas like this- the energy problem would be solved

  6. Monado's avatar Monado | October 31, 2009 at 8:25 pm |

    Excellent! I want one in Toronto!

  7. online piano course's avatar online piano course | November 2, 2009 at 3:07 am |

    .., awesome!!! I wish I could try the piano stairs… 🙂