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I’ve been able to find a pdf which is full of the information to help me with the different heights for exhibits or how bright the lighting should be. This is just extending everything that Gary said when he came and talked to us.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lilia-ziamou/interactive-museum-exhibits_b_1438931.html

Walking is an experience which has been created to focus on the senses. Wilson has created a 5-hour long experience which makes the viewer walk a distance of over 3 miles along a coastal line. Throughout the experience, you will come across multiple piece where the viewer stops and get to either look, feel or hear something. In between these pieces are long walks where the audience gets time to reflect on what they have seen prior. The audience is informed when walking along the experience to be walking at a very slow speed, almost like a bride walking down the aisle. Wilson was influenced by an ancient Greek culture where they would walk at a very slow pace to almost cause their minds to hallucinate and imagine things and feelings that weren’t happening. Personally, I feel like I wouldn’t gain much from this experience because I’m not able to keep at a slow pace because I’ve always been keen to move on and move forward. Never the less I feel like it would be an interesting experience to be able to see how I would actually respond to such. The audience have been known to act differently and some even to break down in tears through the experience. This exhibition relates for my essay and my piece because I plan on basing it on interactivity and on the senses. Wilson created this experience to almost heighten the senses of the audience who are involved. The theme behind my exhibition is interactivity so I plan on having the audience to be able to interact with all the pieces on exhibition.

Creative Machines are a Design company which specialises in interactive exhibits and large scale artwork. They mainly focus their exhibits for science museums but you can find their work all over the world in museums, science centres, libraries, hospitals, university campuses, transit stops, art museums, trade shows, and public spaces. It would be good to reference their work as well as Casson Manns.

The Royal Shakespeare Company shows many theatre based exhibitions but this one caught my eye as its Stratford-upon-Avon’s award winning interactive exhibition. I feel like this is a perfect way into introducing kids into theatre and what better way then to get them dresses up as the character and have them acting and playing with the costumes and props.

Ive been able to quickly read over this article about how to create a immersive interactive museum exhibition using new and old techniques. I plan on reading this thoroughly when I have the time. 

22/10 Today we had a visit by Gary Shelly who is the Director of Casson Mann, who are museum, exhibition and interior designers. The visit was very insightful, being able to see the work that Casson Mann have done and the places they have worked around the world was inspiring. Shelly also talked about a project which was up and coming they’re working on in Blackpool. He showed us his moodboards and rvj as it was, which was interesting to see what a practitioners journal would look like at his level of work from the start of a project. Here are some of the key points I took from the session

I feel like this was one of the only interactive things in the exhibition. This piece allowed the audience play with the lighting on a set. But I feel like this could have been advanced a lot more as it could have given examples of how the lighting can effect the emotion in the scene which becomes a lot more informative for the viewer