Private Design Blog for Sajjangarh NIC Stakeholders

A  blog for presenting/discussing innovative design ideas for the new Sajjangarh Nature Interpretation Centre (SNIC). It will soon only be open to those directly involved in the design process and relevant TAD & Forest Dept officers.

General Guidelines
As the SNIC name clearly states this Centre's role is Interpreting Nature - Plant Life, Wildlife, Tribal Life and how they all fit together. The common element here is obviously Life; and Interpretation means communicating its meaning and significance in ways that can be easily understood.

Most museums do a terrible job communicating Life's creative vitality and feel more like academic mausoleums. To make SNIC important and special in the world, we should harness modern multi-media power and try some new directions.


Lesson I: Things NOT to do:

• Duplicate conventional tribal culture facilities like Shilpgram, Udaipur's Anthropological Survey museum, or TRI's sad uselessness;
• Imitate standard Natural History museums with shelves of lifeless academic displays;
• Fill SNIC with the usual array of "educational" pics & posters, dusty objects or tedious dioramas;

Lesson II: New things to try:

• Multimedia presentations conveying the dynamic wonder of our ecosystems & tribal cultures;
• Interactive media displays that give visitors fresh and memorable educational insights; 
• Immersive corners that suggest the reverence and magic of animistic tribal consciousness; 
• Vivid slideshow examples of the human spirit interpreting Nature through Art;
• Discrete acoustic zones offering seasonal sound cycles (eg, summer crickets→monsoon frogs→winter birds, etc.)
• Animated timeline exhibits outlining the history and evolution of Mewar;

See the Project Pages menu for some illustrated examples.