{"id":188,"date":"2004-05-24T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T13:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhibitiondesignlab.unpacked.it\/?p=188"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T10:42:10","slug":"portable-museum-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitiondesignlab.unpacked.it\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Portable Museum Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Portable Museum Kit featured on the home page of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Portable Museum <\/span><\/strong>Kit \u00a9 <\/span><\/strong>
\nAn interactive, inflatable, open-ended system for the XXI century Fl\u00e2neur.<\/span><\/strong>
\n2004<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Originally developed as master thesis by Daniele Mancini, The<\/em> Portable Museum Kit<\/em> became soon a common teaching ground at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. It became also a powerful platform to develop numbers of interactive installations, workshops, projects within the e1 exhibition design unit<\/em>.\u00a0 The Portable Museum can be described as an interactive and open-ended system to collect and display data, based on RFID Tags technology: visitors\/users come and evoke audiovisual content related to artifacts belonged to our everyday life.<\/p>\n

Idea\/problem\/context<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Imagine you are an explorer or traveller planning a journey. To watch, study, analyze, describe, document and communicate your findings, you need the most appropriate tools and \u2018sensors\u2019 \u2013 and of course adequate space to either set up your tools locally (metaphorically, a base camp) or display an exhibition at the end of your mission. Objects of your exploration could be of many kinds: human artefacts as condensers of relationships and memory, say, or the ephemeral beauty of the natural environ-ment. Or you might simply need to collect sounds or record interviews. What kind of \u2018probes\u2019 will you need in all situations? How will you catch, gather, collect, and archive both the transient and tangible reality, then display all this in an evocative way?<\/p>\n

What it is<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Portable Museum Kit is packed into a foldable, modular and flexible white Museum Bag. The kit comprises an inflatable surface to be used either as a base camp or as a display surface, an RFID kit based on small tags, a 12-inch laptop, a digital and a video camera, an explorer\u2019s sack to collect findings, power supplies, rechargeable batteries, the Portable Museum\u2019s OS on CD-Rom, instruction manual, and other tools.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On one side is the traveller\u2019s experi-ence: daily findings are documented through pictures, videos or audio tracks, recorded moment-by-moment on the sites visited; an RFID tag is attached to each finding; and a database associ-ates tags, findings and the corresponding contents. For the final exhibition the explorer sets up an installation displaying selected findings. On the other side is the visitors\u2019 experience: during the exhibition they are invited to pick up findings (objects, Polaroid-like pictures, labels) and watch or hear the multimedia contents, triggered by the tags read by an antenna.<\/p>\n

Value\/potential<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This open-ended system can be used for many different purposes: to carry out user-testing, track a travelling experience, docu-ment a material-culture environment (tangible collection), make a teaching experience more playful, or support the usual museum activities.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t