Week 1 HW

Trip Report

Assignment Details

1. Cultural or History Museum of your choice, here are some examples in NYC: Museum of the City of New York, The NY Historical Society, Museo del Barrio, The Schomburg Collection, Studio Museum of Harlem, The Museum at Eldridge Street, The Jewish Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, The Rubin Museum or another history/culture museum of your choice. Post your Trip Report to the class site under Class 1: Cultural Museum Trip Report

2. Make additional notes/sketches for your Trip Report:
   A. Notice: the different length of captions. What’s the purpose of the captions…what do you think it should be? Did the captions you saw satisfy you?
   B. Imagine you are a child (4.5 feet or under) of a different race and gender background from you. Look for yourself in the exhibits...how are you represented?
   C. Take photos and note an exhibit in particular that caught your eye.

Object Exhibit

Assignment Prompt

Bring an object to class that is meaningful to you–someone, some time or place, something from your family/culture. What caption will you write about it? Write it. How should it be displayed? Display it. First you will not be able to say anything about your object, we will just look at the object and read your caption. Set it up when you come to class…this is our first class exhibit.

Main Object

Caption

Design

For my object's presentation, I wanted to ensure that visitors would still be able to interact with it; therefore I had a chain connecting to the podium so that users can still pick it up. In my low-fi version for class, I'll be using a clean shoelace (the ball chain chain) attached to a white box on the table (the podium).

My main ongoing concern with this object's presentation is how to balance allowing visitors actually handling the object while preserving the integrity of the object - after too many uses, this eventually will break down.