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@theculturecorner
Welcome!
Culture Corner is an interactive exhibit with multiple stations that help bring cultural awareness to RIT Students and the greater Rochester community. The exhibit aims to foster international human empathy, understanding and connection.
This is our process blog! For better user experience please use the side navigation and check out each individual page for the narratives of each section of our exhibit! Enjoy!
Our flashy shirts and our crazy blacklights!
Intro to the VR & Video Station
This page serves as a process work timeline, with the earliest work appearing at the bottom and most recent work appearing at the top.
The VR & Video Station of the Culture Corner Exhibit features an in depth personal look into the “Day in the Life” of our partners in Qatar. We gathered footage from our partners at VCUQ (check out the VCUQ page to learn more). The day in the life video is a 3 screen snapchat style experience that gives users a taste of life in Qatar through our partners! The VR Google Cardboard headsets were used to show 3 different locations in Qatar chosen by our partners to give users a better understanding of the areas in which we are referring to throughout the exhibit. We are excited to share with you our creative process when developing this part of the Culture Corner exhibit!
Intro the the Wall of Assumptions - Imagine RIT 2017
This page serves as a process work timeline, with the earliest work appearing at the bottom and most recent work appearing at the top.
The Wall of Assumptions (AKA Cards against Implicit Bias) is an exercise in challenging your knowledge of the Middle East. You enter the exhibit, write down rapid fire what you know on blacklight cards provided (some have prompts such as “Tell me about Middle Eastern Arts!” to help give direction to participants) and put them in a box for privacy’s sake. They were tacked up over the course of the afternoon.
Participants were given a blacklight flashlight to explore other’s assumptions, and to explore other county’s assumptions about America. There were big, flippable cards to help explain common assumptions for both.
This activity is meant to force people to come to terms with their short comings in terms of knowledge/ignorance about the Middle East and to challenge those stereotypes by comparing them to silly stereotypes about America (if the american ones are silly and untrue, then maybe my assumptions about the Middle East are silly and untrue, as well.).
This is our final center screen video! This is the main video in which the left and right screen support. This has the main soundtrack for the whole experience the other two video are silent. *Disclaimer we did at one point have a video of al the videos set up and running at Imagine RIT, but we are not sure where that file is currently. Therefore we are uploading each video separately until we can (if we can) locate the other file! But in the mean time if you want the full experience open all 3 videos on different screen and play them in sync together!!!! We hope you enjoy the videos!!*
User feedback for the Assumptions team.
100% enjoyed the exploration of the wall
Cards
59% said extremely impactful
41% said somewhat to very impactful
Suggested Improvements:
More info
Compiled data
More blacklights
Surprised by American assumptions?
The generalization of assumptions (vegetarian/vegan, all eat pork, all overweight)
Hesitant writing your thoughts?
71% No
29% Yes -People were nervous about lack of knowledge and saying something wrong
Users exploring and covering the wall with their own cards, including this lifelike depiction of a camel. The large cards were flippable, and had a common assumption of the area of origin discussed.
Our Imagine RIT Wall of Assumptions coming to life!
There were different blank cards with different prompts on each to help the users think of something to write in the blacklight pen. After writing, the users would place the cards in the box, and we would tack them to the wall over the course of the day.
Blacklights allow for anonymity of comments, and for the element of discovery as you shine a blacklight flashlight over each card.
Our Imagine room beginning to take form!
A map thats shows where students from RIT and VCUQ are based.
Some Culture Corner ads out in the wild.
Working away!
Some shots from our user testing. You can see the board begin to fill up with user’s assumptions! Also included is their feedback.
Figuring out our user flow of the Wall of Assumptions.
Some pictures of our mind mapping exercises to help navigate us in a direction for our culture exhibit, and some shots of us planning our semester ahead.
Our friends at VCUQ did the same exercise, but reversed! We got a huge kick out of it. It’s neat to see how others perceive us.
Our initial exercise that inspired us to create an Imagine RIT assumptions experience! Basically we rapid fired as much as we knew about The Middle East, forcing us to confront our ignorances and shortcomings.
Intro to the Collaboration Station – Imagine RIT 2017
This page serves as a process work timeline, with the earliest work appearing at the bottom and most recent work appearing at the top.
The Collaboration Station is a 2-player game similar to charades. Players stand on opposite ends of the board and are given a sticker with a series of 7 icons that represents a path on the board. Player 1 is given Player 2′s path, and Player 2 is given Player 1′s path. Each player must act out the icons on their sticker in order to lead their partner from one end of the board to the other, icon by icon. The only rules are no talking, no pointing to icons, and no ASL.
This game is meant to give people a sense of what it may be like to be in a foreign country and not know the language. You can’t ask for directions with words, so you have to come up with another way to communicate where you need to go.