14th Dec.2010~31th Oct.2011

Biodiversity in the world

Exhibition in Ewha Womans University Natural History Museum

Minkyung Yun (Multimedia Interaction Design. Ewha. W. Univ)Seohyun Kim (Multimedia Interaction Design. Ewha. W. Univ)

Target : Ages 7 to 12 years old children who visit the museum

‘No one knows exactly when and how the ecosystem is demolished.’ To deliver the meaning of biodiversity for the audiences, we designed the interactive jenga game.

After inserting a wooden block into the hole, a RFID reader inside the table recognises RFID chips put in a wooden block and interactive images would be shown. RFID chips were attached to six blocks not every piece of block.

RFID reader

• Six zones and the animals(Savanna, Sea, Tundra, Tide pool, The Antarctic, North America)

• Keystone species in the six zones (elephant, grey wolf, sea otter, brown bear, krill, starfish)

Brown Bears which are the keystone species in the Tundra have eaten Salmon living in a river of the area. The excrements of bears enriches the soil and they can be natural fertilizer for trees and plants. However, if the bears are extinct, the number of salmon rapidly increases and ecosystem of the Tundra is likely to collapse.

key-stone species

other species