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XR Project 2 weeks

Nordiska Museet

Nordiska Museet project hero image
Challenge: "Life in Sweden and the Nordic countries is continually redesigned and changed in the encounters between people and in coexistence with nature and the climate. Find a logical solution for the visitor to connect all impressions within the exhibition."

We decided to create not only the exhibition's last room (projection room) but to add an AR experience, with the option to take the art you make with you, having an eternal memory of your visit to the exhibition.

Team

  • Ivar Kronqvist (Producer, Narrative Design & Writer)
  • Katarina Hakansson (AR)
  • Rang Li (Art)
  • Sheila Géa (Producer, Developer & Video)

Tools Used

Miro · Shapes XR · Unreal Engine · Adobe Premiere Pro · Adobe Aero · Generative AI · Stable Diffusion

Duration

2 weeks

Presentation Video

Moodboard

Moodboard

About the Experience

For this project, we were briefed on how the exhibit moved from the 16th to the 21st century, and the museum wanted us to make a futuristic screening room.

In this room, the desire was to have space for interaction and reflection.

The idea was for the visitor to impact the exhibition and leave a mark in this room, in addition to gaining time for reflection, symbolizing the future of Nordic culture.

The Present

The present is something that is being made as we speak. Therefore it's not something that can be exhibited. It has to be created. Therefore we went with interaction-based stuff that makes you reflect on the exhibition we have gone through.

The Present concept

The AR Nature Experience

The idea here is to be able to take a photo with your family of the nature of the Nordic countries, also urging you to mail that photograph to a Time Capsule that will send the photo back to you 20 years later about how you think we will live together with nature.

2 Intentions:

AR Nature Experience

The Mirror of Thoughts (Magic Mirror)

Here we invite the person in the exhibition to not only make a mental reflection but reflect themselves in the mirror.

We urge them to think back on the people, ideals and things that the history that the exhibition has been interesting and they want to bring with them to the future.

How it works

Next to the mirror is a touchscreen that you can press on the portrait of the people, icons representing the different eras and some of the more notable objects in the exhibition.

Once these are chosen, you get a Mixed AI artwork that reflects you with these other expressions in the mirror. You get a code referencing this picture that you should save.

Mirror of Thoughts

The Future

The future is something you affect in the present. Here we want the future to be a space to reflect on what has happened in the past, a chance to sit in a room with calm visuals and reflect.

What's the point of the room:

The representations of the leaves blowing in the wind. Either it's seen as the death of something or related to the rebirth of something.

The Future room

Outside the Exhibition

Either directly outside or down in the gift shop, we set up a Photo Printer that can print out that photograph of you with the impressions from the exhibition. Here you can choose to pay to get it printed out as a postcard or maybe even as a small poster. Giving you a memory of the exhibition.

Photo printer concept