Talking Brains 展览设计

Brain Dome

Entrance photocall

Entrance photocall

Babel language wall

RFID card system

RFID card system

RFID card system

Tree of languages

Tree of languages

View room B

Animal songs

Animal songs

Hominia

Homo erectus

Australopithecus

Australopithecus

Australopithecus

Neanthertal

Interactive Objects

Crane

Crane

Mapping on the crane

Overall view

Inside the mother’s womb

Inside the mother’s womb

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Labyrinth

Non verbal autism

Non verbal autism

Brain Dome

Brain Dome

Brain Dome

Oculus virtual reality

Brain Dome

Sylvius experiment

Sylvius experiment

Sylvius experiment

Experiments table

Experiments table

Experiments table

Language diseases wagon

Language diseases wagon

Iconography

Talking Brains is an exhibition that creates experiences, incites imagination and shows how language is connected to our biology. It has a fully immersive design that walks the visitor from the origins of mankind and language to their complex evolution.

It is an experience that goes beyond the exhibition walls thanks to the use of RFID cards. This technology allows identifying visitors and personalizing their experience: the contents are shown in the language of choice and the installations can be enriched with personal data like date of birth, experiments results or the scores of games. This personal itinerary is registered and can be sent to the visitor’s email address if desired.

CosmoCaixa, the Science Museum of Barcelona, has an area of 750 sqm for temporary exhibition which has three wall boundaries, the fourth side being the connection spot with the rest of the museum. Accordingly, this is where the entrance and exit are located. All the exhibition enclosures and dividing walls follow the same construction system: folded steel plate modules with different shapes and sizes connected to create a geometric surface. These modules are lacquered in dark brown and can have blind or perforated sides in order to create wall openings. Thus, these walls both delimit the spaces and generate itineraries.

The central area of the exhibition contains the Brain Dome, a structure made with more than 400 perforated and bent steel plate triangles forming a geodesic construction. This structure has, on the inside part, Dibond plates cladding and outside, opal methacrylate cladding.

Talking Brains is structured in seven different spaces corresponding to the main topics: Unity in Diversity, The Evolution of the Linguistic Brain, The Acquisition Labyrinth, The Universe in the Brain, In Half a Second, The Disintegration of Language in the Brain, and Beyond Complexity.

Talking Brains commits itself to an inclusive way of understanding diversity. Action is taken to benefit several collectives: space ergonomy, accessible graphic design, interactive audiobooks and braille panels for visual diversity, close captioning and audio induction loop for hearing diversity are some examples.

Year 2017

Work started in 2017

Work finished in 2017

Main structure Steel

Client CosmoCaixa

Status Completed works

Type Exhibition Design / Interior Design / Custom Furniture / Graphic Design / Web Design / Exhibitions / Installations / self-production design