Museuming
Project Overview
Museuming is an interactive installation that reimagines the museum as a living container of human behavior. Using a hopscotch-inspired interface, the project transforms everyday physical actions into visual digital imprints. Each jump activates sensors that generate unique color-coded marks, allowing participants to see how their presence contributes to a growing collective composition. The prototype explores how simple interactions can make invisible participation visible, playful, and meaningful.
My Role
Interaction Designer
Type
Group
Date
March 2025 - April 2025
Tool
Discover
Restate Brief - Deconstructing MUSEUM
What makes a museum meaningful?
By deconstructing the word MUSEUM, we reframed it as a system of interaction — one where individual movement, no matter how small, contributes to a collective experience. Each letter represents a principle that guided our design, shifting the focus from static preservation to embodied participation.
Inspiration
This project draws inspiration from playful, participatory public installations that turn everyday actions into meaningful interactions. From voting with your feet to lighting up floors with a simple step, we were intrigued by how physical presence can become a form of expression. These references guided our exploration of interaction as both a personal gesture and a collective experience.
Define
Concept Map
Causal Loop Diagram
Persona
How Might We
Analysis Overview
Stakeholder Analysis
Brainstorming
To explore how simple actions can create collective impact, we sketched a range of interactive installation concepts. Each idea investigates a different mode of embodied participation — from stepping on memory tiles to triggering sound shadows or co-creating speculative futures.
We asked ourselves:
What happens when presence becomes input?
Can everyday motion generate visual or narrative output?
How might a museum evolve by reacting to its visitors in real time?
These playful concepts helped us define the emotional tone, interaction logic, and spatial dynamics we wanted to prototype further.
Oppurtunities
How might we make everyday actions feel visible and meaningful in public space?
How might we design playful systems that reveal collective presence through individual participation?
How might we transform unconscious movements into shared, evolving visual experiences?
Deliver
Process Diagrams
System Architecture Diagram
Prototyping
FSR Connecting & Testing
Visualization Outcome
Next Steps
Our current prototype captures the core idea: individual actions—captured through FSR sensors—generate colored blocks on a shared digital canvas. As more participants engage, the screen gradually transforms into a collective visual piece.
Looking ahead, we’re excited to explore:
Personalization: How might we let each participant’s block carry more identity? (e.g. movement pattern, timing, color logic)
Narrative Evolution: Could the accumulation of colors eventually form a story, mood, or thematic pattern?
Distributed Participation: What happens when this system exists in multiple locations, contributing to a shared canvas in real-time?
This phase will focus on refining visual logic, building in memory, and designing a more poetic feedback loop between individual presence and collective form.
Sequence Diagram
