Follow Team Opal as we design and build our own exhibition for Museum Studies Leicester.
This week we had a change of plan in terms of our exhibition
design. On Tuesday, following a meeting with one of our supervisors, we decide
to totally redesign our case. Through our discussion we had found that the case
was beginning to lose its message as we had so many ideas we wanted to convey.
We decided to narrow our focus and begin designing again with the sole idea of
‘Food is a representation of home’ in mind.
Over night we each drew up our designs and compared on Wednesday
morning. We found that we had a consensus for making our case into a form of
food cupboard. As a group we also decided that the olive jar should not be the centre of our exhibition,
instead the theme of food and home would be. Whilst the pot would still have a
place in the case so too would other food that we view as important in
representing our homes.
We also liked the idea of incorporating a suitcase into the
exhibit as the connotations of the olive pot are similar, something you travel with
and transport goods in. We felt that we could create an interactive around a
suitcase where people could place pieces of card inside it with their answer
to the question ‘What food reminds you of home?'. We came up with the idea of these cards being in the shape of either a suitcase or the olive jar.
In addition, the group also felt that this redesign would
fit well with our previous idea of a running audio on the Ipad where we
describe foods that remind us of home. Within this new idea, the food items
that we talk about could be seen within the case, tying the two together.
Some members of the group then mocked these ideas up into a
digital form and we then presented them to our supervisors for a design
critique. The idea was very well received and helpful advice was given into how
we could extend and develop the idea.
As a group we have learnt a lot this week and cannot wait to
make this idea a reality in the next few weeks.
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