GoKawiilI Built a Museum Exhibit
28 Apr, 2026
Designing for Curiosity, Spring 2026
School of Industrial Design, Georgia Tech
Alice, Irene, Jessica, Shashank; Professor HyunJoo Oh
Project Report: Wild Lenses
I audited Designing for Curiosity in my final semester at Georgia Tech. The first half was seminar-style, working through foundational papers in design. At the midway point we got to talk about some of our learnings and I gave a presentation on Subverting Expectations. The second half was a group project where we designed and built a museum exhibit in partnership with the Children's Museum of Atlanta, for the toughest audience there is - children. It was a wonderful experience: to build something with my hands, to design a product with a tight feedback loop, to combine art, craft and technology, and to have it be received with such wonderful exclamations as “This is dope”.
10/10, would do it again.
Background
Wild Lenses was motivated by the possibility of sparking a child’s curiosity about how animals view the world. Rather than giving children a science course, we wanted to show them how different animals view the world and how it differs from our own perspective. We were given a few notes before we started:
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