MOA Interactive Map
Developed in collaboration with the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and Indigenous communities, this interactive map brings Indigenous languages and stories to life in MOA’s renewed Great Hall.
UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Community Engaged Documentation and Research (CEDaR), First Peoples' Cultural Council
Partners
cedar: app Design & development
AJ Montajes, Dante Cerron, Vita Chan
moa: visual & physical Design
MJ Araujo, Anthony Barker Skooker Broome, Lilith Charlet, Gerry Lawson
Karen Duffek, Jennifer Kramer, Daisy Rosenblum, Susan Rowley
Consultation & Curation
For the reopening of the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), MOA Director Susan Rowley and NW coast curators Karen Duffek and Jennifer Kramer asked us to help create an interactive map that would orient museum visitors to the diversity of Indigenous cultures, languages, and landscapes represented in the renewed Great Hall. Through a touchscreen linked to a projection, visitors access video and audio contributions from community language programs featuring the creativity and vitality of Indigenous languages in British Columbia, from a stop motion video of the Dzunuḵ̕wa story told in Bak̕wa̱mk̓ala by ’Nakwaxda’xw Elder Mary Henderson and illustrated by students, to a pop song in the Nuxalk language. CEDaR worked in consultation with the Museum’s Staff, Indigenous Advisory, and in collaboration with originating communities represented in the Museum displays.
A screen recorded video of the MOA Map