The Antarctic Archive
Immersive experience

PROJECT DETAILS
Year
2025
Service
Immersive Design
Team
Guadalupe Castellá
Museum archives are built to preserve but preservation alone doesn't create connection. The Natural Sciences Museum had an Antarctica collection that almost nobody engaged with. The challenge wasn't the content. It was the experience. We redesigned the relationship between visitor and archive from observation to participation. By integrating computer vision, capacitive sensors, and video mapping on physical prisms, the user's body becomes the primary interface, every movement triggers a response, turning a static collection into a living system. The strategic decision was to use Antarctica's core tension, pristine wilderness meeting human presence as the interaction metaphor itself. The more you engage, the more the environment reacts. You don't just visit the archive. You become part of it.







