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Ingenium Canada

Highlighting the contributions of women in STEM

A travelling exhibition uncovering the triumphs and tribulations for women in science, technology, engineering, and math

Two people standing at a brightly-coloured pink and blue museum exhibit display, interacting with a digital screen using physical buttons.

Client

Ingenium Canada

Project type

Travelling exhibition

BadMath; Optima Imaging; Tim Davis Design

Collaborators

Following the success of our 'Women in STEM' poster series, Ingenium entrusted our team to develop a dynamic travelling exhibit. This exhibit showcases the inspiring narratives of women across the world, celebrated for their exceptional contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), while also shedding light on the challenges faced by women in STEM.

Addressing numerous challenges along the way, we successfully tackled issues such as integrating lighting, designing modular components for adaptable layouts, and creating a user-friendly system that could be effortlessly uncrated and assembled within a six-hour timeframe by two to three people without prior building experience.

Our focus centered on creating a bold, vibrant, and modern exhibit that seamlessly extended the aesthetic of the poster series into a captivating three-dimensional presentation. In addition to the physical components, designed to travel for at least five years, our team developed two interactive digital games that showcased specific STEM careers and exposed gender biases, a mechanical interactive that physically demonstrated the piezoelectric effect, an iconographic library encompassing all STEM fields, and a comprehensive user manual.

Now travelling for over five years, the exhibit continues to make its mark at prestigious landmarks throughout North America, appearing at cultural and scientific institutions, universities, schools, embassies, and community centers.

The entrance module of the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, featuring a backlit title panel on the right, and an interactive screen with accessible controls on the right, displayed on a large black structure.

A section module of the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition with two yellow-and-green graphic panels featuring high-contrast black-and-white graphics, photos, and text content.

Two section modules of the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, with the closer module featuring vibrant yellow-and-green graphic panels, and the further module featuring bright pink-and-blue panels.

The entrance module of the ‘Iron-Willed: Women in STEM’ travelling exhibition, featuring a female museum visitor in jeans and a beige sweater standing in front of an interactive screen, watching a video and listening through a hand-held audio cup the has to her ear.

An array of four graphic details from the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, featuring the entrance module in the top-left, a small infographic in the top-right, a section of a timeline in the bottom-left, and a close-up of a hand touching physical interactive controls in the bottom-right.

An array of four graphic details from the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, featuring a close-up of a pink and blue graphic panel in the top-left, a grid of photos and icons in the top-right, a small infographic in the bottom-left, and a close-up of a hand touching physical interactive controls in the bottom-right.

Schematic elevations of three modules from the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, showing the design of each module, various accessibility heights and reference guidelines, and silhouettes of various museum visitor types.

Isometric schematic illustration showing the sequential construction of the exhibition modules for the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, starting with the initial wooden framing, followed by support sections, lighting components, and finally graphic panels.

The cover of the instruction manual for the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition, above an open spread of the manual featuring instructional text and illustrations of several exhibition components.

Two spreads of the instruction manual for the ‘Iron-Willed’ exhibition; the first spread showing a list of supplies needed for setup, and the second spread showing step-by-step photo installation instructions.

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