Giant Pillow Blob Flying Galaxy Cloud is an interactive textile sculpture co-designed with young people from Tuve Fritidsgård in Gothenburg.
This project started as a child culture design thesis project that asks what it might look like if cultural spaces centred relationships in their engagement with young people (9 to 11 years old). If museums are to be inclusive and diverse and operate with the communication and participation of their communities, then they must challenge their current view of children as passive receivers of museum content and programming and direct their attention towards children's capacities for cultural and knowledge production.
Instead of engaging them exclusively through the lens of education and pedagogy, I employed improvisation, role-sharing, and material exploration with my co-designers to create an exhibition that was later shown at Monitor Gallery and Frihamnen.
View the interaction and documentation reel here and here!
For a more comprehensive documentation of this and Barnens Drömmar project, please visit this site.
This project started as a child culture design thesis project that asks what it might look like if cultural spaces centred relationships in their engagement with young people (9 to 11 years old). If museums are to be inclusive and diverse and operate with the communication and participation of their communities, then they must challenge their current view of children as passive receivers of museum content and programming and direct their attention towards children's capacities for cultural and knowledge production.
Instead of engaging them exclusively through the lens of education and pedagogy, I employed improvisation, role-sharing, and material exploration with my co-designers to create an exhibition that was later shown at Monitor Gallery and Frihamnen.
View the interaction and documentation reel here and here!
For a more comprehensive documentation of this and Barnens Drömmar project, please visit this site.
