Exhibit Design
Milkdromeda: An Interactive Installation
Stanford University Capstone Project
Throughout the course of my senior year at Stanford, I worked on a year-long project through The Senior Reflection program where I created a piece of art about science.
I chose to design and build and interactive kinetic sculpture of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding.
My goals for this project were to share with my audience a sense of awe and wonder, inspire them to be a part of understanding the universe through science, and to fill them with an appreciation for both the chaos and order of the cosmos. The three key elements that I wanted to include in this piece to achieve these goals were movement, interactivity, and scale. The movement element will simulate how galaxies actually move on a scale that we can understand; the interactivity will make people feel involved and give them a sense of agency in science; the scale of the installation will inspire a sense of awe and wonder in the natural world.
The Arizona Garden Pop-Up Exhibit
Stanford University Class Project
During a class on Science in Public Spaces, I worked with a team of sixteen students to put on a pop-up exhibit for the historic Arizona Garden on campus.
Together, we identified the aspects of the garden's history, plant science, and community that we wanted to highlight and developed materials for our Land, Plants, and People exhibit.
I designed an interactive model of the garden's restoration and put together a Visitor Wall that encouraged visitors to be good stewards of the garden. This experience honed my ability to work collaboratively with a team to support our exhibit's big idea and bring our design to fruition.
We created material for an in person pop-up exhibit and a permanent online exhibit through Stanford Spotlight.
Testing the Law of Gravity
Stanford University Class Project
During my sophomore year, I joined a physics research lab that was studying how gravity acts on very small scales. While taking Introduction to Science Communication that year, I designed a museum exhibit based on the specific method that this lab was using to study gravity: levitating optical traps.
In my museum exhibit designs, I specifically explored the technology that my lab was using to study gravity. I created designs for interactive activities that would both be fun to play with and would teach the audience about cutting edge physics.