Universal Ball
An installation to foster interactive and playful conversations around cultural differences and diversity.
DISCIPLINES
User Research
Art Installation
Collaborators
Pierre Azalbert
Year
2018
Universal Ball aims to raise awareness of cultural diversity and differences and allows them to reflect on how they take part in this. It is a starting point for opening the discussion instead of creating arguments, and it makes a statement about the cultural landscape of the location it is placed in.
The installation consists of a giant white globe placed on a wooden stand. The only information initially displayed on the globe are the locations of all the continents on Earth, outlined in black. Participants are then asked to fill in the blank globe with markers: in red, they can write stereotypes that they have heard about other countries; in blue they can write something that they believe is true about their own country(ies).
