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title: 'GENED 1160: Virtual Gallery Design Workshop'

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# GENED 1160: Virtual Gallery Design Workshop  

**Date:** March 26 & 27, 2025  
**Location:** Learning Lab, 50 Church Street  
**Lead Facilitators:** Marlon Kuzmick, Sophie Wilkowske

## **Workshop Goals**  
- Introduce students to **different ways of structuring digital galleries** and how those choices shape meaning.  
- Explore **a range of tools** for organizing exhibits and refining individual assets.  
- Encourage **critical reflection** on design decisions and their impact on historical narratives.  

## **Workshop Structure**  

### **1. Introduction & Framing (10–15 min)**  
- intros--who are we, who are you? where are you in the project?
- **Marlon:** Overview of digital exhibition design & why structure matters.  
- **Sophie:** Brief comparison of **timeline-based vs. map-based exhibits** (e.g., Timeline.js vs. StoryMaps).  
- **Group Discussion:**  
  - How does spatial vs. chronological organization impact interpretation?  
  - How do different platforms shape storytelling?  

### **2. Hands-On Tool Exploration (20–25 min)**  
Students will rotate through stations for a **fair-style or lightning tour** of different gallery-building tools:  

- **Canva (Blue):** Designing structured layouts for digital exhibits.  
- **Unity & Unreal Engine & [Spatial](https://www.spatial.io/) (Marlon):** Exploring 3D/interactive exhibition possibilities.  
- **StoryMaps & Timeline.js (Sophie):** Prototyping exhibits using temporal and spatial organization.  

*Student examples and prototypes will be available for reference.*  

### **3. Structured Group Brainstorming (Final 15 min)**  
- **Students reflect on their section’s gallery goals.**  
- **Quick design-thinking activity:**  
  - Groups outline potential exhibition structures on index cards.  
  - Initial voting on preferred approaches.  

## **Action Items**  
✅ **Sophie:** 
* Create 3–5 prototypes using the same objects in Timeline.js & StoryMaps.  

✅ **Learning Lab Team:** 
* Source additional digital object examples.  
    * 3d
        * https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jeanne-d-arc-medieval-assets-pack-31056d5edebe4fcd9536bf4a013a8c6f
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* Parse the XML files for object metadata.  
* print things
* etc.

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