{"id":32,"date":"2009-06-09T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-06-09T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:59:20","slug":"youth-space-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/2009\/06\/09\/youth-space-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Stand & the Youth Exhibition Dedication at the Illinois Holocaust Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IL Holocaust Museum dedicated their youth space this last weekend. We finally got a bit more coverage than we had in the past by the Pioneer Press<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

“So here on a Sunday afternoon were the invited guests to the dedication, many of whom brought children and grandchildren to experience the offerings in this unique space. State-of-the-art technology<\/strong> is reflected in familiar computer screens as well as a not-so-familiar movie theater-size screen<\/strong> in a separate room. The all-enveloping screen is a part of an exercise that allows children to take on the role of frogs and make important decisions along their journey.<\/p>\n

Still, even with technology that would rival the best of Nintendo and X-Box games<\/strong>, it would be a serious mistake to suggest that the exhibit serves simply as another venue for children to play with computer toys.<\/p>\n

“The space we’re dedicating today is not a game room<\/strong>,” Harvey Miller said. “It is not a demonstration of the latest computer graphics. It is not a space for relaxation and resting. It is a teaching experience. <\/strong>It is meant to help provide the skills that parents, teachers, caregivers and the children themselves need in order to understand and use the lessons of the Holocaust. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s great to hear that our technology wowed the reporter. But I’m really glad Harvey Miller (the donor) was there to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is admittedly hard to pin down in words.\u00a0 Even docents can have a hard time with it. On the surface, it looks and feels like a video game: you control characters on a screen, you have some goal that you’re trying to achieve in the space (catching flies), and you have a score that tells you how well you’re doing.\u00a0 But our goal was to deliberately use people’s expectations against them.\u00a0 And not so much “teach” per se, but to provide a touchstone experience that could spark conversations about the universal lessons of the holocaust.<\/p>\n

Now that the exhibit is open and I have a little more time, I hope to spend the next few weeks relaying some design stories from our experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IL Holocaust Museum dedicated their youth space this last weekend. We finally got a bit more coverage…\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,8],"tags":[34,41,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.inquirium.net\/blot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}