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Exhibition

Beginning in September 2022, the course Understanding Design has been supported with an exhibition of objects from the Henri Baudet Institute. The goal with this exhibition is to link the abstract topics or perspectives to tangible historical artefacts collected at our faculty. With the help of a Comenius Teaching Fellowship grant in 2023 this exhibition was expanded with an interactive collaborative layer, allowing visitors to connect their ideas and associations with objects from our historical collection.

After several iterations, the current incarnation of this exhibition (Exhibition 2.0) – called One Object: Nomadic Inspiration (OO:NI) – displays one object in an exhibition cube, inspired by the DIY Nomadic Furniture books from the early 1970s, with Generative AI powered visual associations projected on the background. Visitors can use the tablet integrated into the exhibition to interact with and add associations in an expressive interface, developed by Random Studio (Roel Wouters, Thomas Boland).

Exhibition 2.0

One Object: Nomadic Inspiration

Video introducing One Object: Nomadic Inspiration (OO:NI) exhibition

Exhibition 1.5

In May 2024, together with students Marlo Poelstra and Kalyani Chopade, we created another trial exhibition near the entrance. This Minimum Viable Product, consisted of standard and available display materials, each week over 4 weeks, it displayed a different object from the Henri Baudet Institute and associations could be added by visitors on their smartphones, using QR-codes on a poster as an invitation. The associations of visitor input were visualised using Generative AI in a smooth animation on the large screen behind the exhibited object. The lessons from these experiments made clear that the new location questions and Generative AI visuals on the display worked, but that QR-codes were too big a threshold for visitors to add their own associations. We also learned the importance of instant feedback, being able to visualize the associations instantly.

Philips Le Cube radio

Input results visualised of the first week of the exhibition 1.5 trial run.

Clear rotary dial phone

Input results visualised of the second week of the exhibition 1.5 trial run.

Philips Senseo coffee machine

Input results visualised of the third week of the exhibition 1.5 trial run.

Exhibition 1.0

In the revolving door at the entrance of our faculty, we had an exhibition of the theme for that week.

iPod & Tupperware

Sixth week, theme Complex Systems Thinking. From 10 to 14 October 2022