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Open Door Museum

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Engaging
Expressing
Best in Category
2022
United States
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Team

Elizabeth Han, Janet Peng, Joseph Zhang

Company | Institution

Carnegie Mellon University

Category

Concept

Type

Student

Project description

‍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.

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.

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.

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