FUSEPROJECT | permanent exhibition
The de Youngsters Studio is a permanent interactive installation in de Young Museum of San Francisco. It dedicates to engaging children’s curiosity through state-of-the-art design and technology. This free space aims at attracting families with children ages 2-10 to the museum. Through discovery and prototyping, Tellart developed the interactive experience, refined it with users of various ages, and built it to have a lasting impact.
Client: de Young Museum
partnership:
concept execution: Tellart
Architecture and engineering: Chris DeHenzel, Jon Brody Engineers
Fabrication and installation: Chicago Scenic Studios, Scenic Inc., 42 Design Fab, Sterling Graphics
Main structure and interactions
Color - Consists of a digital column where children can mix and combine primary colors. They do this by dragging their fingers across the column, creating digital pigments.
Composition - Children create a piece of art with simple acrylic forms. The projection helps children to understand the scale while making their creations visible to their parents and other visitors.
Shape & Form - Live cameras capture children’s movement on a two-sided wall surface. The human form is abstracted as a line, but when two kids’ outlines overlap, intersecting patterns occur.
Texture - Physical tiles with textural features provide a tactile reference for children to explore and touch. The shapes are placed on large touchscreens, creating a canvas where textual patterns are then drawn.
Sculpture - Collections of custom-designed magnetized blocks on-hand in this learning station, in various geometric and organic forms with different facets and characteristics. Kids make sculptures with the blocks and then place them into an augmented reality platform that captures the image in real-time and inserts the creations into their chosen environment.
Fabrication
