Preventable

Futures

Viviana
Amelia x 2
Andy x 2
 1. Big Idea

2. Prototype

3. Opportunities

4. Context

5. Artist

Overview
6. Content

7. Technology

8. Visitor Experience

9. Potential of Engagement

10. Evaluation and Visitor Research

11. Looking Ahead (& Sideways)

12. Q & A
 Interactive
Installation

Supplement
Life of the
Earth

1. Big Idea Disrupt

Comfort Zone

Why Visual Representations of

Toronto?
2. Prototype
 Rainfall in Toronto gets much heavier as
the climates warm.

Toronto is a city surrounded by rivers and

the hazards of flooding along them involve
a big area of
downtown Toronto and Great Toronto.
3. Opportunities ● Share research.

● Support local artists and modify the images.

● Impactful experience with our younger

generations.
4. Context
Climate Change
“The race is on. It is a race we
can win. It is a race we must
win.”
-UN Climate Action Summit 2019

IPCC.2018.SPM2
 Locals - repeat visitors

Tourists - first time visitors

Target Audience
Families - leisure
All ages/multi-generational
School groups - education
 :
What will global warming look like?
Interest
How will global warming impact me?

Audience Understanding : Grade 2: climate foundations

Profile Grade 4: climate change foundations

:
My home, my future, my problem
Attitudes &
Values Why is this my problem? What can I do?
 Local landmarks = broad appeal

Striking visuals = entertaining

Audience Strategy
Scientific weight = educational

Experience = explorative

Promote individual understanding

Prompt collective action

5. Artist
 Mathew Borrett
About the Artist
● Environmental concept art
● 3D modeling
● Dystopian visions of Toronto
6. Content
Learning Experience
● Connecting the dots.
● Why in Toronto?

Awareness > Action

● Facilitating a vision of a possible
future in Toronto.

● Reconsider actions and choices in the

present critically.
Themes ● Water Level
● Wildlife Impact
● Social Impact
 ● Lake Ontario communicates to the

Water Level ocean through the St. Lawrence

River.

Toronto
CO2 – Temperature – Sea Level
 ● Rainfall in Toronto gets much heavier
as the climates warm.
● The flooding is more frequent.

Water Level ● Toronto is a city surrounded by rivers

and the hazards of flooding along them

Toronto
involve a big area of downtown
Toronto and Great Toronto.

CO2 – Temperature – Sea Level

Compare Present and Future - Toronto Flooded
Wildlife Impact ● Urban overpopulation, terraforming,
extreme weather, are pushing native
Urban Wildlife species to evolve and non-native ones
to emigrate to the urban environment.

● New habitats in urban areas.

● City raccoons have become fatter and

also smarter – capable of navigating
dumpsters and pet doors to pillage
new food sources.
Compare Present and Future - Toronto Wildlife
Social Impact
● World population projected to reach
Overpopulation 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in
2100.
● Toronto will be impacted by the
natural population growth.
● Immigration coming from places
where resources have depleted, too
warm to live, and cost flooded.
Social Impact
● City Hall is already concerned about
Overpopulation
its aging and increasingly overworked
sewer system.
● Habitational space.
● The water, waste, and energy systems
will collapse in little more than a
decade.
Compare Present and Future - Toronto Social Impact
7. Technology
 Tech Requirements
● Projector

Tech List and ● iPad

● Enclosure, stand and alarm

Software module for iPad

● Some programming to create the
sliding, UI, and not having the
Not much is needed UI appear when projected

Costs would be minimal due to the

OSC’s current inventory
8. Visitor Experience
 Scientific Experience
Meaning making

Unique transactions
9. Potential for Engagement
iPad - Personal Engagement

Room projector - collective engagement

Curiosity in engagement

iPad - autonomy in engagement

10. Evaluation and Visitor
Research
 Field studies
Questionnaires
Focus groups
Emotional cards
11. Looking Ahead (& Sideways)
Past and Present Parallels
Science Centres + Interactive Art
● Utterback and Achituv’s “Text Rain”
○ “Think about the difference between something
conceptual and something physical”.
● San Francisco Exploratorium, “Artist in
Residence Program”.
● California Academy of the Sciences, Scott
Snibbe’s “Arctic Ice”
● Ned Kahn, Multiple Works
● Digital Art Museum, Tokyo
● “Spaces for more adventurous works.” - NYT
○ Interaction is already an essential component.
Past and Present Parallels
Science Centres + Interactive Art
● Utterback and Achituv’s “Text Rain”
○ “Think about the difference between something
conceptual and something physical”.
● San Francisco Exploratorium, “Artist in
Residence Program”.
● California Academy of the Sciences, Scott
Snibbe’s “Arctic Ice”
● Ned Kahn, Multiple Works
● Digital Art Museum, Tokyo
● “Spaces for more adventurous works.” - NYT
○ Interaction is already an essential component.
Past and Present Parallels
iPads + Collections
● Enhanced-learning and wayfinding aids.
○ “Second Canvas”, Museo del Prado
● Secured “Kiosk” Interfaces
○ “WaterWorx”, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
● Active Exploratory Devices
○ “Capture the Museum”, National Museums of
Scotland.
● Augmented Reality
○ “Ultimate Dinosaurs”, Royal Ontario Museum
● User Feedback
○ “QRator”, UCL Grant Museum of Zoology
Best Practices
● Keep in an enclosure with power cable
running inside the casework.
○ Block Home + Power Buttons
● Disconnected from Wifi
● Locked System Settings - e.g. Kiosk Pro
● Standing displays call more attention
than seated ones.
● Have the resource near the work of art.
● iPad as a means to refocus visitor
attention on content and engagement – Note how people may be apprehensive about
not display technologies picking up the device
○ Balance focus with discovery
12. Q & A