Museums act as a space to store and look after treasures. But what makes those objects ‘treasures’ are the narratives and context behind them. Our idea is to think of the people as the objects and their stories as the treasures. Our idea would allow Te papa to collate a collection of people’s memories to create a national identity through people rather than objects. Documenting the changing face of New Zealand.
Te Papa is interested in collecting contemporary. Our idea can respond to this by changing the topics and prompt questions to reflect current issues.
Our idea can easily be implemented in other museums around the country.
Te Papa could collaborate with these museums and create the same community video spaces within them. The data(video)base would then become a documentation of people’s stories throughout NZ. You would also be able to access the stories from other cities through the timeline to “get to know your nation”. A touring video booth to would be implemented to access people from rural communities. This would help create a sense of nationhood, being part of NZ, while still appealing to Frankie’s sense of engaging with the local community.
5 years in the future the videos could be associated with each person by scanning their fingerprint, this would mean that they can easily bring up their past videos on the interactive timeline by just touching the screen. This creates a time capsule where they can see how much they have changed and reflect.
Our idea would also appeal to our other user, the Six Pack; a millennial couch surfer who wants to engage with people and cultures within the city. They do not actively participate in ‘touristy’ things preferring to hang out with the locals. Our idea would appeal to this user as it acts as an authentic documentation of the people who live and breathe the city.
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