Student community engagement projects from the exhibition and experience design concentration in the UC Davis Department of Design

Exhibition

Exhibits Everywhere

A series of fast paced exhibition design challenges that take place in professional studios


Brief

For these team based, short intensive projects, we will develop design concepts that engage visitors in either a re-think of an existing exhibition, or to tackle an exhibition that is in the planning for the future. The project will test your exhibit development skills and how you wrap engaging stories around objects using contemplative, sensory, discovery and participatory design methods. Your solutions should challenge our way of thinking, and draw on the various methods of exhibition interpretation, storytelling, and narrative design we have seen and discussed. These are fast paced projects with only a few hours to complete the work. Use traditional design and presentation techniques, improvise and surprise us!

Process and Deliverables

Work in teams. May include a participatory research component (interviews with local people etc.). Create something quickly with a tangible aspect to the presentation (scale model, prototype, product, reenactment, low fidelity exhibits etc.)

More information and further project details were supplied during the launch of each project on site.

Course: Design in Europe Program, 2023

Community Design Studio Collaborators: Event (London): Tinker Imagineers (Utrecht); Kossmann dejong (Amsterdam)