AV & MULTIMEDIA: COOPER HEWITT Process Lab
The Process Lab is a dedicated section of the museum where people can create their own design objects. There are tools, activities and devices to spark people’s imagination, such as a making station and 3D printer. On an interactive table, there’s an application that asks users to think about how they’d improve an object or use it differently. It’s an opportunity to work through the different constraints that any design object must overcome if it’s to get out into the real world.
Visitors experiment with design through physical and digital activities in the Process Lab
Gesture Match
A visitor uses the Kinect-powered Gesture Match
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Gesture Match uses a Microsoft Kinect to scan visitors’ poses and match the shapes to objects in the collection. It was made by Local Projects for the Beautiful Users exhibition. They wanted to create interesting and active ways for visitors to interact with the collection. That’s important because we’re not an art museum, we’re a design museum – and design objects exist to be used. Gesture Match and the Pen are an explicit invitation to visitors, which says: ‘You’re invited to do something; your participation is fundamental to design itself.’
WORKING ON COOPER HEWITT
■ Interior: Gluckman Mayner, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
■ Garden: Hood Design
■ Retail space, visitor services desk: Diller Scofi dio + Renfro
■ Casework: Diller Scofi dio + Renfro, Goppion ■ Interactive media: Local Projects ■ Multi-user interactive tables: Ideum ■ Graphics and signage: Pentagram
■ Pen: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Local Projects, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro, GE Design, Sistelnetworks, Tellart, Undercurrent, MakeSimply
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