Un|Filtered: The Paradox of Water on the Gulf Coast
Un/Filtered focuses on life-giving water, how it connects and threatens us, and how water on the Gulf Coast represents global crises: flooding, subsidence, stormwater runoff, and water inequality. The exhibition investigates this relationship through a literal and metaphorical lens–using color progression, redaction, data and cinepoems–to uncover not only the statistical realities of this compromised resource but also the unresolvable metaphysical ones.
Alexandra Dziedzic
The Challenge
This was our first time executing a project of this scale, with minimal experience leading exhibition design.
In the beginning of the process, it was a learning curve navigating communication across five teams, while also ensuring a cohesive design direction was instilled throughout each asset.
Project Vision
We want to explore our relationship to water through a means of redaction and editing in a way that informs us of our treatment of water.
Un|Filtered capitalizes on the dualities of purified and unrefined, processed and raw by creating a series of layered scrim that reference the function of a filtration system.
Colton McKinney
An example of how a person can interact with the installation. The scrims are translucent, allowing the viewers to see through each filter.
Alexandra Dziedzic
The Mini Posters are aligned with its correspondent scrim and give the reader more insight.
Alexandra Dziedzic
The Mini Posters are printed on vellum allowing the viewer to look through all the pages or read them individually.
Alexandra Dziedzic
This is the view of the Un|Filtered Exhibition from the outside with the logo and window graphics.
Design & Execution
Using the research on water issues facing Gulf Coast ecologies, six teams from the senior graphic design course presented exhibition proposals with the interpretation of data as the goal.
The winning proposal Un|filtered, capitalized on the dualities of purified and polluted, drought and flood, by creating a series of hanging layered scrims that referenced the function of a filtration system. Each scrim, designed by the remaining teams, featured quotes and data around a unique aspect of water issues.
Detail shot of the Water Inequality scrim.
This is all the scrims in the exhibition in its digital format.
Proposal and exhibition overview giving viewers a deeper look at the ideation and production process.
Slideshow
Un|Filtered: The Paradox of Water on the Gulf Coast
Alexandra Dziedzic
A full shot of the Un|Filtered Exhibition
Colton McKinney
An example of how a person can interact with the installation. The scrims are translucent, allowing the viewers to see through each filter.
Alexandra Dziedzic
The Mini Posters are aligned with its correspondent scrim and give the reader more insight.
Alexandra Dziedzic
The Mini Posters are printed on vellum allowing the viewer to look through all the pages or read them individually.
Alexandra Dziedzic
This is the view of the Un|Filtered Exhibition from the outside with the logo and window graphics.
Detail shot of the Water Inequality scrim.
This is all the scrims in the exhibition in its digital format.
Proposal and exhibition overview giving viewers a deeper look at the ideation and production process.