Ayala Museum Interactive Wall
The Ayala Museum showcases a diverse collection of Philippine art, history, and ethnography, featuring pre-colonial gold artifacts, indigenous textiles, dioramas of historical events, and modern and contemporary Filipino art. Its exhibits reflect a blend of indigenous traditions, Spanish colonial heritage, and modern Filipino identity, highlighting the country’s complex cultural evolution. The Ayala collection wall is a large-scale interactive multi-LCD-screen, multitouch wall represents hundreds of artifacts and artworks currently in Ayala’s database. Hand curated and metadata-based visualizations can be viewed on the wall, and visitors discover connections between artifacts, documents, dioramas, music pieces, etc., and save artifacts via the existing Ayala App.
Client: Ayala Museum
Role: Creative Director, Design Director
Team: Chris Fung, Anthony Roy, Taylor Darnell
“The Interactive art wall represents the breadth of the museums’ collections. Hundreds of curated artifacts are displayed across the art wall, repeated throughout a grid to insure accessibility for adults and children. Once the visitor touches an artifact, it ripples out, creating a wave through all surrounding images. As a result the artifact scales up while its waves reveal related groupings to the artifact via specific tags set in the CMS. The relationship tags may range from color, shape, and medium to themed topics such as “Vanity” or “Warriors”.”
“Relationship tags & tag selection”
“Once an artifact is chosen, it expands within the “Placemat”, a personal interactive area that covers the LCD screen directly in front of the visitor. It serves as the ‘deep-dive’ exploration into the artifact’s history, geographic location, related objects and rich history.”
