Scout
Experience Design & Physical Fabrication
Overview
For Scout's annual conference, our team designed and built an interactive installation that brought the theme Collisions to life through participation, accessibility, and bold physical form. Attendees contributed a self-portrait and placed it within the installation based on the type of design they practice most, which turned individual identities into a shared, growing visual map of the community.
The Process
We began by defining what "interactive" should mean in a conference setting. We mapped three user groups: students, faculty, and professionals. We then moved into physical prototyping to validate scale, stability, and assembly. We first tested dimensions and base options with hand-measured, hand-cut shapes, then created a to-scale laser-cut model to confirm proportions and refine how each piece would connect before final fabrication.
Final Steps
For Scout's annual conference, our team designed and built an interactive installation that brought the theme Collisions to life through participation, accessibility, and bold physical form. Attendees contributed a self-portrait and placed it within the installation based on the type of design they practice most, which turned individual identities into a shared, growing visual map of the community.
Created the base of the exhibit with wood and PVC pipe.
Laser cut acrylic to fit around the PVC and hold smaller plastic ornaments.
Laser cut colored acrylic to make hanging ornaments and attached with hooks.
Final Product
At the conference, participants were prompted to draw a self-portrait on a provided shape, then hang it on the section that matched the type of design they do most. The result was a living installation—part wayfinding, part community portrait—that visually captured Scout's "Collisions" theme through collective making.
