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TOOLKIT DESIGN | CRITICAL INQURY | SATIRE | ILLUSTRATION | VISUAL & STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION

Toolkits for understanding museum-making

TOOLKIT 1

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How to take stuff home

(without stealing!)

"How to take stuff Home" without stealing is a zine+worksheet designed for children. 

 

The two sides of an A3 sheet is created as two phases into the act of "taking stuff". The first phase, the toolkit is a pocket-friendly 16-page zine, and in the second phase, it opens out to be the play mat for the child to map all the information they have gathered and make their own museum.

 

To understand the stuff, the zine helps a child keenly look at an object and develop an interest. How can a silent artefact reveal its stories to anyone? By asking the right questions, by seeking patterns and by looking carefully. How do we take it away with us? By putting the pieces together and mapping the story!

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The toolkit uses a satire, dialogue and a little thief as a character, a not-so-subtle-nod to the colonial practices of collecting and filling museums. 

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TOOLKIT 2
In a boat,
on a plane

Designed for all ages groups, this simple reflective toolkit is a enables its participants to think about museums and story-making by bringing to the fore questions on authorship, voice, narratives and most importantly what gets left behind or excluded.

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From a playful storytelling start participants to explore their surrounding in either their boat or their plane. Perspective changes the obvious. This little journey encourage them to be able to bring their imagination to an otherwise serious & heavy discourse without diluting the essence.

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