Purpose = to effectively communicate your idea

You’ll need to start finding answers before you need them

ex: gallery space, projector, who to talk to for more research

Components

• written description
  • “elevator pitch”
  • clearly identify what the thing is
• context for rest of exhibition
  • for our purposes - speculate what the context would be and design accordingly
  • floor plan
• message
  • what do you want your visitors to understand having experienced your piece
• audience
  • who are the visitors? age group? specific community?
• goals
  • cognitive goals
    • what do you want people to learn
  • experiential goals
    • what do you want people to feel
• sketches
  • visual component
• additional considerations
  • cross-cutting concepts - national standards for science education (nsta.org)
    • shows by grade what kids are learning about in school
• cost - need for schematic package not conceptual package
  • equipment
    • projectors
    • speakers
  • production
    • render farm allocation
      • if you need to render a really large file send to a render farm rather than rendering on your computer
    • 3d models
    • licensing footage/music
  • labor
    • sound designer
  • value engineering - cut it down

Roadmap to the project

1. Topic - what are you researching
2. Conceptual
   1. coming up with ideas for how we want to present the scientific topic
   2. (in museum) try to sell that to admin
3. Schematic
   1. Plan for how we’ll make it

Topic

• ANMH does a topics party where they invite curators and scientists
  • everyone takes post its and writes ideas on them
• how do you know what makes a good show
  • highly knowledgable curator
  • can it travel
  • interesting for kids?