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In "Treasured Materials," visitors learn about materials found in nature (wool, nacre, petroleum, etc.) by matching those materials with clues about their unique properties.
Each player has a set of 10 clear acrylic pucks that are embedded with natural materials and have a unique RFID tag on their underside. Clues are presented on the player’s touchscreen, and they must determine the material that those clues are referring to.
Recently, Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project drawing us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for a museum in Turkey.
Um, it was an exhibit for creatures that use asexual reproduction... :) Featured in this article: LetsGoBiology.
Exhibit signage.
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For the last forty years or so the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s venerable science museum, occupied the Palace of Fine Arts, a cavernous Beaux Arts building that served as the centerpiece of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. A few years ago the museum decided to relocate and selected Pier 15 on the city’s Embarcadero as a new site. Thus began a massive project with architects Esherick, Homesy, Dodge, and Davis to transform the pier into a home worthy of the Exploratorium's heritage of hands-on science education. The results will soon be public with a grand opening on 17 April 2013. Having seen the project develop I can report that it is a grand success. The original pier building retains its wonderful utilitarian nature and offers visitors the fine experience of occupying the threshold between bay and city. A new glass structure at the end of the pier – the Observatory – provides the perfect foil to the darker volumes of the pier and an ambitious program to “uncover the stories embedded in a place by directly observing the geography, history, and ecology of the San Francisco Bay region.”
During a sabbatical leave ten years ago I had the great fortune to serve as an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium and have kept in touch, working on occasional projects over the ensuing years. My Hidden Ecologies Project, and the salt pond landscape work it spawned, originated during my sabbatical at the Exploratorium. So, I was particularly delighted when they commissioned an exhibit of photographs from my salt pond work for the new building. The exhibit is made of fifty-seven 9” x 12” prints mounted in a tight grid. The twelve rows of photographs are placed on three walls adjacent to, and above, a stair that leads from the ground floor biology exhibit area (with halophile tanks adjacent to the photographs!) toward the second floor Observatory and an exhibit area on landscapes.
I had a great time working on the photo layout with the idea that lines, colors, and shapes would tie the multiple images together when seen from a distance while each image would hold its own on close inspection. I am very pleased with the way it turned out.
In "Star Colors," visitors play a game to learn about star identification. At the heart of the activity are 3 prop “telescopes” through which visitors view star types and their corresponding spectral patterns.
Exploratorium Project Coordinator, Daniel Bering, tests the final, powdercoated telescope before shipping it to Turkey. Photo courtesy The Exploratorium.
Recently, Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project drawing us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for a museum in Turkey.
taken inside the Exploratorium many moons ago while visiting w/ fellow flickr shutterbug Ed Horsford.
In "Treasured Materials," visitors learn about materials found in nature (wool, nacre, petroleum, etc.) by matching those materials with clues about their unique properties.
Each player has a set of 10 clear acrylic pucks that are embedded with natural materials and have a unique RFID tag on their underside. Clues are presented on the player’s touchscreen, and they must determine the material that those clues are referring to.
Recently, Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project drawing us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for a museum in Turkey.
tina took us to see the exploratorium. i really dig some of the shots we got there. something i really love about this one in particular.
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Perlan is an iconic building that hosts one of a kind nature exploratorium. It‘s a learning laboratory where visitors explore Icelandic nature through science and human perception.
It is situated on a hill above Reykjavik and from the terrasse you can enjoy great views of the city.
Perlan also has a restaurant, bar, café, and gift shop for guests to enjoy.