Everyday heroes inspire action in a moving and illustrated experience.
The Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre mixes beautiful collection items with contemporary multimedia design to celebrate the work of an order whose ongoing vows are built around service to their community.
Putting ourselves in the shoes of visitors who wonder what it takes to dedicate your life to social justice.
Shining a light on empathy
Gibson International created an exhibition that shines a light on the sisters’ ‘superpower’ – their empathy. Their ‘fourth vow’ of service to the less fortunate forms the guiding narrative for the experience, that ultimately reveals the visitor’s own capabilities and inspires ordinary citizens to take action.
Part-exhibition, part-graphic novel
A series of large-scale digital screens present ten characters in a ‘choose your own adventure’ interactive. Actors are set against beautifully illustrated backgrounds, which animate as visitors choose each story path. Following on-screen prompts, visitors help their characters navigate a series of decisions.
Our team collaborated with curator Jennifer Forest to script and film actors, and supervised design of the illustrated backgrounds. Our design and production of multimedia included interactive iPad kiosks that interpret exhibition displays, a 200-year interactive timeline, ten large-format interactive graphic novels, and four intricate soundscapes.
Our role
- Museum consultants
- Stakeholder and cultural engagement
- Experience design
- Spatial design
- Content producers
- Interactive design
- Exhibition design
- Interactive displays
- Fabrication and installation
- Ongoing site support and maintenance
Actions have impact, actions can make change
While choosing paths for the ten characters, each large-scale digital screen reveals how the actions of individuals, churches, communities and governments can create agents of hope and love for those in need.
Through the rest of the exhibition, spaces are grouped around four content areas – Beginnings, health, education and diverse ministries. In each space, a range of historically significant objects, imagery, text and technology tell the story.
Disadvantage is mapped across Australia by region, age, gender, life stage and socio-economic status.
“The Centre is a genuine example of contemporary ‘best practice’. We can be proud to promote it.” – Sister Helga Neidhart
For more about the Sisters of Charity, visit their website.
Gibson International collaborated with
Curator Jennifer Forest, Designers; Tim Gibson, Paul Broadhurst and Kate Cunningham, AV integrator Interactive Controls
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