Immersive Classroom, Energy Campus Zeeland

Scalda is opening an immersive classroom at innovation hub KAAP in Vlissingen: a large projection space with spatial audio and interactive capability, developed together with HZ University of Applied Sciences and Dockwize as part of Energy Campus Zeeland.

The challenge: the opening ceremony draws a wide audience. Students, teachers, partners from the Zeeland energy sector, executives and politicians, all in the room on the same day. The immersive classroom has five minutes to prove itself: what can this mean for education, what is the energy transition in Zeeland, and why is this the future of learning?

A slide deck was never an option. Scalda wanted an experience that lets the space itself do the talking while telling the story of Zeeland as an energy region, to people whose backgrounds and technical knowledge vary enormously.

What was delivered is a five-minute immersive opening experience that walks the audience through Zeeland as an energy region. Scene one shows the current Zeeland energy landscape from the air: port area, industry, wind farms. Scene two zooms in on North Sea Port, on the scale of industrial CO₂ emissions and the infrastructure the transition needs.

Blue hydrogen carries scene three: how CO₂ capture and hydrogen production come together in the Zeeland context. Scene four flies the audience over the offshore wind farms off the Zeeland coast. Closing scene five shows Zeeland in 2040, an energy region supplying clean energy to the Netherlands and Europe.

The experience uses the full projection capacity of the KAAP classroom together with spatial audio, so the audience sits inside the landscape rather than in front of a screen. Interactive moments let the Scalda team match the pace to the group in the room.