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Finds Officer’s Desk:Secrets of the Thames exhibition
While on the foreshore with the mudlarks, we experienced the thrill of discovering artifacts and having them identified by an expert. We designed an experience where anyone who visits the exhibition could ask the Finds Officer to tell them about an object.
Accompanying the Finds Officer on one of our many trips to the foreshore, it was clear that mudlarks were keen to show him their discoveries and seek his expertise.
This eagerness to learn and share inspired the design of the experience: each visitor would select an object and present it to a virtual Finds Officer.
The final installation evokes the desk of Stuart Wyatt, Finds Officer at the Museum. Visitors rotate a disc of fixed objects beneath a camera, triggering screens arranged like a desktop with multiple windows: a live video of Stuart, a web browser showing the Finds Database, and the camera feed.
Together, they create an experience where Stuart introduces each find and reveals its catalogue record.
The experience is built on top of a machine learning model, trained to distnguish between the different objects in the experience.
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Finds OfficerStuart Wyatt
CuratorKate Sumnall