As commencement approaches, 14 museology students have created an exhibit that centers around something many graduates are likely looking for right now: advice.

“Everybody knows what advice is, and by its very nature, advice is something you do with other people,” said second year museology student Nicole Robert. “It’s an interpersonal interaction.”

Six weeks and $300 were all the graduate students were given to produce the installation, entitled Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, F**k it. The exhibit is a project for a class on social technologies in the museology program that prepares students for a variety of careers in museum work. Through virtual and physical content, the exhibit attempts to foster social interaction and participation between its visitors.

“This is not about objects; we have no story line,” Robert said. “The exhibit is based on you and what you do while you’re here. You, the visitor, create the content.”

Virtual components of the exhibit include the videos, text, photographs and recordings that are sent to the class’s blog. The contributions to the site will be incorporated into the physical installation that will be in the HUB starting June 6. The installation will be located near the part of the building where graduating students will be picking up their caps and gowns.

“They came up with this idea based on the timing around graduation,” said Nina Simon, who teaches the class. “Everybody has a [piece] of advice that they’ve learned at some point in their lives, and I hope they’ll share it in this exhibit.”

Simon is an independent exhibit designer and consultant from California. Her work focuses on engaging visitors as participants in museums.

“A lot of people think about social technology as just a virtual experience,” Robert said. “Nina’s work uses those tools to make real-world relationships.”

The physical aspects of the installation will be audio recordings and visual representations of advice. Mad Lib-style advice buttons with opportunities for visitors to fill in the blanks will be provided, and there will be forums for people to post their own questions and give responses to others. Additionally, an advice booth will occasionally be staffed by both experts and impromptu volunteers.

“It may not mean that you are talking to a stranger,” Simon said about visitors’ interactions. “It may mean that you are contributing to someone else’s question or giving advice to someone you’ve never met before.”

The concept of the installation breaks away from traditional exhibits that focus solely on the information rather than visitors’ interactions with the content.

“It’s actually raised my expectations,” Robert said. “Literally six weeks and $300 and 14 students to take an exhibit from concept to design — I would have said it wasn’t possible. As a group, we’re taking it literally from beginning to end.”

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