‘Smoke’ is an interactive window display where your cigarette smoke alters and eventually renders meaningless a recorded solo dance performance. Read More »

In what social, physical and geographical context would the installation have the greatest impact? How will the subject matter influence the mode of presentation? Read More »

The sensor evolves

Designing a sensor that communicated it’s function to visitors was a major challenge. What does a device that is meant to have smoke blown at it to control a video look like?

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The bits and pieces

How could we communicate from a sensor on the outside of a window to a display inside? How would we develop the video presentation?
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Installations, user testing results and video!

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Group Members
Mouna Andraos
Chris Cummings
Sean Salmon

Turno is a consignment vending machine, an approach to the challenge of creating distributed, location- or interest-specific communities of sellers and buyers. Unlike traditional vending machines that only sell goods, Turno facilitates the transaction of new and used goods between members of a given community. Building on successful market-building models of eBay and other online marketplaces, Turno aims to re-establish a sense of time and place into transactions between remote individuals.

Please visit turno.info for :

• User Scenarios
• Design Process Description
• Images and Inspiration

Team Members

Erika Block
Chris Cummings

Overview

The Mobile Mapping Museum is a mobile exhibit about seeing, understanding and creating maps of real and imagined spaces.

The exhibit will map its own journey. In addition to fixed, onsite mapping activities and experiences, visitors will contribute to an evolving mapping and storytelling piece that connects people from different places around the world, within the physical space and in an online space.

The project will gather location information on visitors and the exhibit sites for use as source material for both the evolving exhibit and the online portion of the project.

We’ve been thinking a lot about maps and the stories they tell, not only about the places they locate, but also about the people who make them. Denis Woods writes that maps are as important for what they don’t include as for what they do include. Read More »

Based on a developmentally-specifc sequence of activity areas that address the National Geography Standards, various activities will be designed for different age groups, ranging from 3-12 year olds.

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The Locatomator system allows visitors to collectively build a database of stories, images and sounds at the museum using a special device, or at home using their own mobile device or PC. It is a digital recording system that you can use to tag your location while recording video, sound and still images.

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