CH wk10
Dioramas & Physics: What does it feel like to be there? How do things move, work?
The visitor would feel free to create as well as to experiment any cultural item with freedom. Once per week it will be possible to let the people to reorganize the museum categories so they could become the exhibition designers of the interactive museum. While visiting the museum you would feel like within a spiral labyrinth of cultural items. I want it to be like the sensation a child has when he visit for the first time an attic full of mysterious and different objects.
The cultural items would be floating around. However, they will be floating in different heights or levels, see previous weeks notes, based on the functionality they have: structure, food, clothing, miscellaneous. I want the visitors to be able of making the cultural items to float and reorganize them recreating the sensation the children experienced in the scene “A spoonful of sugar” of the Mary Poppins. See http://youtube.com/watch?v=-1LfNxFoh9M&mode=related&search (in English but with low quality video) or http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_xSqRqVnQ (in French but better quality) However, some of the objects could perform a small animation when touched showing their functionality or an unexpected action, like a Jack in the box toy. In terms of the SL language, the objects will be phantoms so they would be transparent and without physics in terms of not being affected by the gravity.