ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings
c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city was an historic partnership of three Vancouver institutions: the Musqueam Indian Band, the Museum of Vancouver, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. All three explored this extremely significant ancient village site on which part of Vancouver was built. In the three different exhibitions, visitors were not only taught about the past, but about Musqueam culture and community today. In collaboration with the Musqueam Advisory Committee for c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, Dr. Susan Rowley, Jordan Wilson, and Lisa Uyeda at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) worked with Dr. Kate Hennessy, Dr. Alissa Antle, Reese Muntean, Brendan Matkin, Rachael Eckersley, and Perry Tan at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology to develop an interactive tangible tabletop called ‘ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings’ as a component of the exhibition at MOA, which ran from January to December 2015.
Tabletop view, Belongings (2015).
Belongings. Photo by Reese Muntean, 2015.
Installation view, ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings: A Tangible Table in c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Photo by Reese Muntean, 2015
Painting replicas of belongings. Photo by Reese Muntean, 2015.
Reese at work making fiducial tags for the belongings. Photo by Kate Hennessy, 2015
Developer and design team at work, MOA, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Opening reception, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Opening reception, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Opening reception, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Opening reception, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city at the Museum of Anthropology, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Museum of Anthropology, 2015. Photo by Kate Hennessy.
Publications
Muntean, R., Antle, A., Matkin, B., Hennessy, K., Rowley, S., Wilson, J. (2017)
Designing Cultural Values into Interaction. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI), ACM Press, 10 pgs.
Muntean, R., Hennessy, K., Antle, A., Matkin, B., Rowley, S., Wilson, J. (2017)
Designing Tangible Interactions to Communicate Cultural Continuity: ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ — Belongings, a Tangible Table in c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city’ at the Museum of Anthropology. Proceedings of Museums and the Web, 2017, Cleveland: Archives and Museums Informatics. [link]
Muntean, R., Hennessy, K., Antle, A., Matkin, B., Rowley, S., Wilson, J. (2016)
Design Interactions in ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ – Belongings. Pictorial DIS 2016, New York, ACM Press, 13 pages. [pdf]
Muntean, R., Hennessy, K., Antle, A., Rowley, S., Wilson, J., Matkin, B., Eckersley, R., Tan, P., and Wakkary, R. (2015)
ʔeləw̓k̓ʷ | Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of Electronic Visualization and the Arts (EVA), London, June 2015. 8 pages. [pdf] *Ashgate Publishing Prize for Best Paper at EVA London 2015