Our pictorial visually describes ʔeləw̓ k ̓ʷ — Belongings, an interactive tangible tabletop installed in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The tabletop was designed to communicate the continuity of Musqueam culture, convey the complexity of belongings that were excavated from Musqueam’s ancient village site, and […]
2016 • Belongings • design • interactive • knowledge tradition • Musqueam • oral history • tabletop • tangible system • user interface • ʔeləw̓ k̓ʷNew Interaction Tools for Preserving an Old Language
The Penan people of Malaysian Borneo were traditionally nomads of the rainforest. They would leave messages in the jungle for each other by shaping natural objects into language tokens and arranging these symbols in specific ways – much like words in a sentence. With settlement, the language is being lost […]
Borneo • knowledge sharing / exchange • language | preservation • Malaysia • object writing • Penan • symbols • tangible system