Please Touch Museum — Centennial Innovations Interactives
Five children's interactives using the 1876 World's Fair to design communities in Fairmount Park, with tangible puck technology.
We designed, developed and installed five interactives for Please Touch Museum, a children's museum located in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. Designed for children, the interactives use the 1876 World's Fair as a tool to design their own community in the 280-acre park surrounding the museum. The interactives also contextualize the historic scale model in the basement of the museum.
Design Your Community
Utilizing a 50-inch Ideum touch table and Ideum's Tangible Engine technology, Design Your Community encourages kids to build a healthy community using 15 unique "pucks." Placing a puck on a build site constructs a uniquely equitable structure satisfying the needs of the community and affects community health metrics of environment, happiness, and budget. An algorithm-based community feedback system drives visitors to address goals and problems of the community's citizens.
Exposition Space Exploration
Three touch screens located around the historic scale model offer views into four large exposition spaces. As children explore each exposition space by swiping, they are tasked with finding a particular invention being exhibited at the Centennial and then quizzed to identify its modern-day counterpart. A historic guide introduces the invention a visitor should be searching for in the exhibit space.
