How to create interactive design

that encourages people to

participate in exhibitions?
Sound Trace
Äänijalki (2005)

Ateneum Art Museum

Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005
Conversational Map
Keskustelukartta (2005)

Kunsthalle (Taidehalli)
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005
The Secret Life
of Objects
Esineiden Salatut Elämät (2008)

Design Museum Helsinki

Design Research
Water collection
We always had some for
water and gas collecting
at the summerhouse,
starting in my childhood.
No well and three
kilometres to the
mainland.
Sound Trace
Ecology of Participation
 The Secret Life of Objects
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab TAIK- April 2008
 The Secret Life of Objects
Mariana Salgado- Media Lab TAIK- April 2008
Research Claims
“ This thing is very good, says an open-sea
fisherman. It’s amazing how the designer has
got the idea of letting water pass through the
head of the fish, thus making it wobble in a nice
way that the big fish can’t resist.

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“ Anti-Ode to a Lamp (Ode to
Objects)

A man invents a lamp

that is not a lamp

He hides the lamp

inside ice.

I don’t understand

I am already cold
I want warm light, yellow and
graceful

A woman invents a new lamp

she places it inside

the sun.
Every morning it smiles
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at her
through the gap in the curtains.
 “ Visitor’s comment “ Answer from museum’s
staff

The story is true. Fiskars

I have heard a story about these had made a juice extractor
scissors, where the colour of before that. The juice
their plastic part is a result of extractor used orange
the prototype process in which plastic that accidentally
they used some leftover pieces ended up on the scissors
of plastic that happened to be handles when the first
orange, the orange that syringe was chosen.
afterwards was used… is that Workers were involved in
story true? the decision, and the
colour orange was chosen
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Objects.
 “ Eeronauts

The furniture by Eero Aarnio has prompted a

particular fan club: the “eeronauts.” All around
the world, they have incorporated his work not
only into everyday life, but also into pop
culture, from sci-fi to Playboy. These signs
cover magazines, videos, movies, etc.

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