Best in Category: Connecting
Interaction Awards 2022
Museum exhibitions provide a window into our culture but often fail to represent the community they reside in. We strive to tackle this by building a platform where residents become the curators.
Through the Open Door Museum, we hope to amplify the community’s voice through a system of exhibitions where community members become the curators and share their stories and cherished objects. We want to provide an alternate purpose for museums when taken out into the public, where they can more easily facilitate community members into building a collective identity through objects.
Problem
Museum exhibitions provide a window into our culture but often fail to represent the community they reside in. We strive to tackle this by building a platform where residents become the curators.
What
Through the Open Door Museum, we hope to amplify the community’s voice through a system of exhibitions where community members become the curators and share their stories and cherished objects. We want to provide an alternate purpose for museums when taken out into the public, where they can more easily facilitate community members into building a collective identity through objects.
How
We designed and prototyped a pair of hardware-integrated cabinets: one cabinet to scan in objects people submit and one cabinet to display that scanned object through holographic projection.
Why
A museum is an exclusive environment that only people with the financial means can afford to visit. Furthermore, museums often don’t reflect the communities they are embedded in as what museum curators decide to present in their exhibitions often don’t reflect the community.
