BC Children's Hospital
Ritual Ware is a nine piece porcelain tableware service that is crafted to heighten appreciation for the act of eating. The dishware’s subtle differences in form, contrasting surface textures and imperfections are sensory invitations meant for you to engage with. Slowing down and spending time with your food creates rituals in your interactions that increase fulfillment and enjoyment for your meals. Ritual Ware aims to guide your intuition for the appreciation and connection to the moments spent during the act of eating.
BC Children's Hospital
Interactive forest exhibit
The Interactive Forest Exhibit was created to provide inpatients and their families with a distraction that can transport them into a forest ecosystem. The exhibit is themed according to the “colours and critters” wayfinding system in the Teck Acute Care Centre (TACC). The exhibit contains many hands on interactive's and sensory elements that tell the story of a coastal temperate forest ecosystem while meeting the demanding requirements of a low-maintenance interactive exhibit that complies with infection control regulations. The exhibit strives to provide opportunities for additional discoveries over multiple visits.
Technical Design and Fabrication
Art direction: Jodie Braton
2016/ Professional: Telus World of Science
Taking a closer look
A look into the interactive elements- Exploring the forest requires curiosity, patience and keen ears and eyes. The exhibit has many different creatures to discover, hidden within the nurse log, and the tree that has grown up from it.
LOOK-motion activated light that illuminates a light box diorama exposing different animal situated in their habitats.
-Douglas the squirrel -pacific wren - brown creeper
LOOK THROUGH- magnifiers flush inlaid into the surface with a light located behind to illuminate the critters under the surface of the log.
-sapsucker-nurse log critters (millipede, ground beetle.carpenter ant)
HEAR- touch activated triggers release sounds of the forest through a interactive drum pad.
-drum sounds, douglas, sapsucker
MOTION- touch sensor located within a graphic trigger the movement of the owls head above.
-owl
TOUCH-casts made of specimens that act as tactile engagements.
-bracket fungus, bananaslug
