Child Remains - Screening The Family Tree

Abstract

The project child remains explores Extended Reality (XR) design through the exhibition in a museum context, as the project is a collaboration between the author and the museum Lilla Änggården. The project revolves around the subjects of digital humanities, immersive and digital experiences in museums, and how design can contribute in these fields. The exploration takes place from an artistic base, a context that creates and gives freedom within the framework of design and exhibitions at the museum. child remains primarily examines museums and exhibitions from a local and Swedish context, as Lilla Änggården fits within this framme. Further, it explores storytelling, aesthetics, and difficult subjects such as grief, by focusing on how a designer can create links between the historical, the contemporary and create cohesion where where difficult subjects can be processed.The exploration takes place with different intuitive methods, site-specific exploration, having conversations, photographing, working with various digital programs and virtual reality (VR), and combining thous with theory such as interaction design, post humanism, affect and the rhizome. The exploration has resulted in the testing of various types of equipment and programs, some 3d models, and commenced a prototype of a VR world. The project further explores what we see as content in a museum, as well as test new ways of using and conveying digital material in this context.