A collaborative proposal for a new educational space
at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem
In order to meet the challenges facing Holocaust remembrance more than half a century after the end of World War II, the museum has initiated a new program targeted at teens and young adults. Our main challenge was to define the means and design the visual style and visitor's experience that would impart the memory and meanings of the Holocaust to future generations.
CAMEL Experiences - Interactive production
Edouard Sitbon - Art direction and interactive design
TUCAN Design Studio - Space design
Yaakov Lopes - CG modeling and renders
Felipe Yonekawa - Character illustration
Young visitors find themselves in the position of researches inside an archive-like room. Each group of students receives a replica of a journal written by a young Jewish person in Europe during the Interwar era.
Their findings throughout the research process are displayed on a collaborative platform that is gradually populated by pieces of information.
As the research progresses, visitors become acquainted with the life experience of their subject, usually a teenager of a similar age. They are able to unveil and collect information about their surrounding circles of family, community life, location, and environment.
The design of the characters and interface is adopting the visual language of graphic novels that the audience can relate to, especially with the lack of photographic evidence from the writers of the diary.
