Cultural Hurricane v.W8 (week8)
Map Location of Cultural Hurricane at Second Life
The Internal Structure:
Inspired by the natural structure of the Tornado and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The Cultural Hurricane Experience:
Cultural Hurricane is a virtual interactive museum within Second Life where people can focus in sharing their cultural knowledge through collecting, exchanging and exhibiting their cultural artifacts. It works as an open virtual museum which objective is to build and share different perspectives of the cultures that exits in the real. The participants could own or create these cultural items, based on the three primal forms that are available within the SL construction tools, or could be owned by them. Each cultural item is suggested to include some information, in the form of SL notes, from the culture that represents, its author and its Cultural Artifact Category.
The initial Cultural Artifact Categories are starting from the ground level: 1)Architectural Structures, 2)Food & Kitchen Utensils, 3)Clothes & Wearable Devices as well as 4) Miscellaneous: Your Favorite Cultural Item. This structure will follow the structure of a multi color hurricane or tornado that can guide the vertical visit of the CH museum, following the lines of wind represented through two parallel bars as well as tinted with different colors, representing the different categories. Moreover the visitor will be able of doing a flying visit through the different colorful levels of the museum. The interstitial areas, where a player can find two mixed colors will be populated with cultural items that could be related with both areas.
Cultural Items Owners & Creators as well as visitors would be able of reorganize the their own or the free cultural items in a limited horizontal, following the previous level-categories, but unlimited vertical space being able of visiting the virtual museum by flying or following the hurricane structure.
The main goals would be:
a> To encourage the participants to create cultural items from the real world or even invent their own creating emerging cultures.
b> To let the visitors learn about different cultures while playing with the different cultural artifacts, one of the main characteristic that distinguish human kind from other animals.
c> To let the creators and visitors to propose new categories, vertical sections of the museum, as well as move the cultural items of each section within it, reorganizing freely the museum.