Climate Portal — Exhibited at Wandsworth art open, 2020
A web-based experience of creating a multidimensions environment
WHERE
Wandsworth Art
RESEARCH
Usabilty testing, level design
MY ROLE
created the forest, website on Cargo, wayfinding and guide
TOOLS
Cargo, Illustrator, Unity, WebGL, HTML
TEAM
Riya Patel, Qize Zhu
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Wandsworth Art
RESEARCH
Usabilty testing, level design
MY ROLE
created the forest, website on Cargo, wayfinding and guide
TOOLS
Cargo, Illustrator, Unity, WebGL, HTML
TEAM
Riya Patel, Qize Zhu
Skip to outcome
The experience is for all the wanderers and explorers who are stuck at home because of the pandemic, give a chance to take you to an alternate time and world. Through the future and past we want to highlight the possibilities the unprecedented circumstances that can arise due to climate change, to leave the audience with awareness and motivation to take actions.
Through a glimpse, in the future, we want to alert our audience of the possibilities of heatwaves,
floods, and other natural hazards that can happen due to climate change, to leave the audience with
awareness and motivation to take action.
Target Audience
Age: 11+
The experience is for wanderers and explorers within the younger generation in the society, who have been stuck at home.
The experience is for wanderers and explorers within the younger generation in the society, who have been stuck at home.
The Experience
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The audience can use the arrow keys to walk through portal doors, which will take them to
the future and the past.
The future: The future is a horrifying polluted world where no living things can survive and
nature is dying
The past: the initial human settlements where there lived in harmony with nature.
Forest - Worldbuilding
Usability Testing
Usability testing was conducted via Zoom. We used shadowing and questionnaire to recognise potentials pain points on the platform. The Participants was given a list of tasks to performs and they shared their experience afterwards.
Insights
︎ A guide for navigation keys
︎ A small description on each page
︎ enhancing the sense of travel and time
︎ Suggestions for resolving technical glitches
︎ Sharing their experience with others - a point of engagement
Website Design
The Past
The Future
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy.