Brainstorming ideas for: big idea, mission, look and feel … etc …
Human nature
- We have been collecting since hunting and gathering days
- Why do we do things? Interesting question!
- Individual cultures collect and cultures collect differently, but it is something that unites us
- Anthropology
Science
- Non-human animals collect too: like birds collect things to make nests out of
- What are the scientific aspects of collecting?
- Scientific data?
- Anything in the human genome?
- How do we know it is innate?
- Body stores sugar in time of nothing (explains diabetes in poverty)
Travel
- Traveling to collect a specific thing
- Collecting a souvenir to remember a travel experience
Intangibles
- People collect more than just objects: friends, memories, experiences, culture …
- Memory is a thing that can be collected
- Collecting knowledge; learning is collecting.
- What do you collect on the journey of life?
Misc.
- Ryerss story doesn’t need to be in there at all, we got hung up on that …
- But, we need to make sure that we can connect our concepts/ideas/themes to objects in the Ryerss collection
Site for exhibition:
- Somewhere between science and history
- Like in a natural history/natural science museum
Look and feel
- Set up like marketplace
- Like an old natural history museum with labels and pins?
- Lots of cabinets, junk drawers
Ideas:
- Collecting as a way people are connected
- Strategies to collecting
- Names for people who collect certain things …
- Ways of labeling, organizing
- Many different ways of categorizing
- Social groups are a subset of collecting
- People want to be part of a social group
- People collect connections, family …
- Status
- Need of collecting for survival
- Collectors throughout history (think Noah)
- How do you get stuff?
- hoarding vs. collecting – what’s the difference?
- Extreme collecting vs light collecting
- World’s fair
- Mementos from famous places
- Reyerss museum: collects personal items and displays them
- Furniture
- Facebook!
- Advertising: “collect all 5!”
- Collecting for basic human needs
- Your body collects without you even realizing it
- Song from A Little Mermaid!
Brainstorming subthemes
Aspects of collecting/ways to think about collecting.
- quantity
- quality
- authenticity
- by country
- by theme
- by material: what’s it made of?
- nature
- history
- biology
- anthropology
Brainstorming Target Audience
When you are taught anthropology in grade school, they don’t call it that
Middle school? High school? Elementary school?
Do we want to identify a specific age?
Connection to standards? Curriculum?
Is “family” one or two audiences?
Could be “family” or “kids” and “adults
The exhibition will have lots of stuff that grandparents would have had
Brainstorming Goals and Objectives
- Visitors will walk away with an appreciation of material culture
- Make connections with people around the world.
Common bond of collecting…
- Will think about how they collect in their own lives.
- Self-recognition/self-reflection of their own collecting behavior
- Visitors will interact with others – sharing, talking about, making connections,
Team goals and objectives: how are we working as a team to achieve our visitor goals and objectives?
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