Projects

A large mobile interactive touch screen in the lobby of the Portland Armory explores the value of preserving our architectural heritage and how sustainable building improves our world.

Animated interactive playbills adjacent to the box office of a performing arts facility provide access to a wealth of information about each of the season’s productions.

Recreated in three dimensions, this interactive whaling ship lets visitors examine every notable feature above and below decks to learn about life on board a vehicle that brought us America’s first oil industry.

This comprehensive resource to the study of philately and postal operations provides unparalleled access to one of the Smithsonian’s largest collections.

Three timely examples of government censorship challenge visitors to consider if it is always a bad thing.

These four installations present hypothetical scenarios that visitors might encounter in their communities and challenges them to make decisions about the limits to freedom they will tolerate.

Four polling stations ask visitors where they would draw the line on freedom of expression in dozens of cases related to hate speech, indecency, violence, and wartime censorship.

Visitors create original collages with elements from notable works of art illustrating the range of expression artists have explored.

Visitors can magnify, transcribe, and come to understand the significance of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights on three large touch screens.

Five screens in an orchestrated flow depict the people, events, actions, and legislation of important social movements that relied on the First Amendment to secure their freedoms.

In this interactive learning environment visitors can learn about issues of freedom throughout the world, access timely news feeds, take quizzes, and create their own Bill of Rights.

As an overture to the McCormick Freedom Museum, a 30-foot media wall orchestrates people throughout time exercising, challenging, celebrating, and defending freedom.

An original score and orchestrated motion graphics bring to life the earlier philosophies, events, and civilizations upon which American democracy was built.

This digital jukebox plays dozens of banned songs from the last six decades.

Dynamic data fuels this display devoted to the ongoing struggle for freedom today of persons around the world.

Visitors at the McCormick Freedom Museum hear our nation’s founders conveying their understanding of liberty in three vertically oriented plasma displays.

Visitors are invited to become a part of the exhibit by recording their thoughts on freedom for all to see and hear.

Two interactives encourage visitors to make their own judgments on several important Supreme Court cases related to the First Amendment.

Structured by quotations from Courbet and his contemporaries, this video examines many of the techniques the artist is thought to have employed at various stages of his painting process.

A medical examiner’s table becomes the screen for a group-based interactive autopsy.

An interactive lecture by an anthropologist explores the origin and evolution of human rights forensics.

Demonstration images from crime scene documentation software show how every detail of a crime scene is potential evidence.

Controlled playback of high-speed gunshot footage allows visitors to study the effects of firearms in forensic science.

As an overture to an exhibition about the history of forensic medicine, visitors first encounter a draped body on an examining table backed by a floor-to-ceiling video projection.

This companion Web site to an exhibition about the history of forensic medicine helps audiences plan their visit, access all the content from the exhibition, find links to more in-depth resources, and gives educators activities for students.

A transportable miniature golf hole blends physical putting with playful, projected electronic courses.

The arts of the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean are contextualized in this large, interactive timeline-map installation at the Getty Villa.

Interactive research stations explore how justice was sought against the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

This Web site follows the bean from the farmer’s field to the barista’s cup, unfolding the processes and diverse personalities behind Starbucks’ coffee.

An exhibition video reveals the science behind the authentication of a J. Paul Getty cabinet believed to have been a fake.