A lamp designed by Manon Leblanc that is powered with only a few drops of water.
http://www.manon-leblanc.com/
Monday, April 25, 2011
Manon Leblanc: Water-powered Lamp
A lamp designed by Manon Leblanc that is powered with only a few drops of water.
http://www.manon-leblanc.com/
Water Exhibit Portfolio
A lot of interesting water exhibits from around the country. They all have one common goal: teaching children about the capabilities and wonders of water.
Virtual Water Project
Possible integration with exhibit
The Virtual Water Project essentially tries to teach about the water footprint of different products. It tries to show how much freshwater is used to produce these selected products in an attempt to make people rethink their consumption patterns.
http://www.virtualwater.eu/
The Virtual Water Project essentially tries to teach about the water footprint of different products. It tries to show how much freshwater is used to produce these selected products in an attempt to make people rethink their consumption patterns.
http://www.virtualwater.eu/
Madison Children's Museum–Madison, Wisconsin
Design Coalition architects collaborated with Tom Lindsay create two major water exhibits for the Madison Children's Museum: the Water Machine and the Water Dome.
The high-profile Water Machine is placed in the entrance lobby because an existing recess in the floor -- originally for sidewalk window displays -- perfectly accommodated the drain basin depth. The laminar jets and the spinning vortex of water create an irresistible attraction, from inside as well as outside the museum.
The Water Dome
A castleated Victorian-esque glass house crafted of CNC-cut structural aluminum and recycled glass. Stand in the center and you are directly under a dome of transparent flowing water.
Water cascades from the glass roof down over 'rain chains' made from old glass electrical insulators into play basins. The central feature is a Mist Bell -- flowing water filled with ultrasonically-created mist.
More pictures and videos HERE!
The Monterey Bay Aquarium
Wave action:
You stand in this Plexiglas-roofed curved hallway, and every so often a 'wave' comes, dumping water on the roof.
Same exhibit, from the outside. You can see the wave is actually just a bunch of water getting dumped out of a tube above the glass ceiling. On the first pic you can see the entrance a little underwater viewing dome dome that usually has at least one kid in it.
The old version of this exhibit was pretty cool too...the 'wave' is similar to what it is now, but it started behind a set of rocks and would jet out from a small hole in the rocks, spraying mostly in the tank, but getting a few kids sprinkled.
Splash Zone Water Play Area:
When I was little I'd spend hours playing here. The first image is of a water flow pool: there are jets and gates, and the rock in the background will create a 'wave' every so often. Kids love to try and get each other wet with the jets. The second image is the signs above the play area. The third image is an area with another wave-gate, and a whole bunch of walls that pivot to create channels or tidepools. Kids sometimes build mazes and 'race' plastic fish down channels.
A Lesson in Signage:
Games:
A board game
A matching game
Random Stuff
Building into the environment
Electronic, multilingual information boards and looking at the thing the sign references
Calls to action...information about projects, and a mail-your-senator table
Cool ways to locate information...
There was more than just lunch in the picnic basket
I don't know how much the kid was learning, but he sure liked opening the door of the baby bottle.
Taking closer looks at common objects...though pretty hard to open
Signs can be made out of texture, and rubbings make good ways to literally take stuff home
You stand in this Plexiglas-roofed curved hallway, and every so often a 'wave' comes, dumping water on the roof.
Same exhibit, from the outside. You can see the wave is actually just a bunch of water getting dumped out of a tube above the glass ceiling. On the first pic you can see the entrance a little underwater viewing dome dome that usually has at least one kid in it.
The old version of this exhibit was pretty cool too...the 'wave' is similar to what it is now, but it started behind a set of rocks and would jet out from a small hole in the rocks, spraying mostly in the tank, but getting a few kids sprinkled.
Splash Zone Water Play Area:
When I was little I'd spend hours playing here. The first image is of a water flow pool: there are jets and gates, and the rock in the background will create a 'wave' every so often. Kids love to try and get each other wet with the jets. The second image is the signs above the play area. The third image is an area with another wave-gate, and a whole bunch of walls that pivot to create channels or tidepools. Kids sometimes build mazes and 'race' plastic fish down channels.
A Lesson in Signage:
The aquarium recently installed an exhibit on global warming, but fell short of their usual standards.
I visited on a rather busy day, so the fact that I could take a picture of this wall without anyone in it shows how ignored it was.
Turning around 180 degrees shows you why...an exhibit full of flamingos is beyond the sea of people.
The only two more informational exhibits that were getting any attention were these two. The one on the left is a mock kitchen. There's a lady talking about electricity 'vampires'...like chargers left in the socket with no device...from inside the cabinet. The other one is a call to action...people pledge to drive less or eat locally or ___ then the computer takes their picture and a character with your face goes up on the big screen.
For all the water power people...what NYC is doing...
I visited on a rather busy day, so the fact that I could take a picture of this wall without anyone in it shows how ignored it was.
Turning around 180 degrees shows you why...an exhibit full of flamingos is beyond the sea of people.
The only two more informational exhibits that were getting any attention were these two. The one on the left is a mock kitchen. There's a lady talking about electricity 'vampires'...like chargers left in the socket with no device...from inside the cabinet. The other one is a call to action...people pledge to drive less or eat locally or ___ then the computer takes their picture and a character with your face goes up on the big screen.
For all the water power people...what NYC is doing...
Games:
A board game
A matching game
Random Stuff
Building into the environment
Electronic, multilingual information boards and looking at the thing the sign references
Calls to action...information about projects, and a mail-your-senator table
Cool ways to locate information...
There was more than just lunch in the picnic basket
I don't know how much the kid was learning, but he sure liked opening the door of the baby bottle.
Taking closer looks at common objects...though pretty hard to open
Signs can be made out of texture, and rubbings make good ways to literally take stuff home
Research on Other Exhibits
The PGE Waterpower Interpretive Center
The Portland General Electric Waterpower Interpretive Center blends the two historic stories, that of the Methodist Mission and the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. The exhibit features storyboards depicting Salem’s important waterpower history and a working miniature mill with pulleys, belts and an elevator.All ages love the water and the Water Play Dam is the perfect place to get a little wet. Originating at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN, the Water Play Dam has been a favorite of visitors since 1987 when the museum opened.
It has many learning possibilities by teaching about water power and electricity but also provides lessons on the historical use of waterways in Tennessee and America for commerce and travel. It has a working lock that demonstrates how canals and water are used to transport goods.
The addition of the railroad exhibit emphasizes the changes of travel and commerce from waterways to steam and a method of transporting goods across the country during the expansion West, and today.
HYDRO GENERATOR Visitors hand pump water to fill an overhead water tank and watch the water fall down over a Pelton water wheel. The Pelton wheel is connected to a generator that produces electrical energy. The hydro Generator is part of a multimedia display of art, light and sound. Once visitors produce enough power, a coloured chaser light activates and which connects power to its associated family member, in this case Hydro Mother. Hydro Mother then rotates her upper body causing her arms to go up and down over her wavy skirt and begins to play an original musical composition.
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