Front Line, Beyond Civil Rights
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Exhibit Design: Amaze Design
Exhibit Graphics: proun
Area: 2000 sq. ft.
Budget: 1.5 mil
This exhibit expands the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham to provide perspective on current human rights issues around the world. Provocative media and bold graphics are displayed among dramatic exhibits intended to motivate a young audience—to encourage feedback and promote activism.
The design team employed exhibit techniques that engage all senses: brightly colored illustrations in a graphic novel format are used to address topics from the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa to the Pro-Democracy Movement in China to genocide in Darfur while inset monitors display actual news footage of the events. Protest songs from around the world are accompanied by animated treatments of the songs. Computer screens prompt visitors to take a stand on issues from gay marriage to school dress codes. Finally, visitors can leave their own story about human rights on a touch screen computer monitor and e-mail it to themselves or a friend.
A multi-screen media treatment featuring foot soldiers of the civil rights movement in Birmingham connects America’s struggle with civil rights to the on-going struggle for human rights around the world.
Recent human rights movements are dramatized in graphic novel format while an inset monitor relays news footage of the events. —Photo: Mark Gooch
Visitors are encouraged to share their own stories of discrimination or intimidation.
The armored vehicle used by police chief Bull Connors during the civil rights protests in Birmingham is a poignant artifact connecting the local and national stories.
Songs of protest from across generations and around the globe are featured in an exhibit entitled Shout It Out!
Exhibit Design: Amaze Design
Exhibit Graphics: proun
Area: 2000 sq. ft.
Budget: 1.5 mil
This exhibit expands the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham to provide perspective on current human rights issues around the world. Provocative media and bold graphics are displayed among dramatic exhibits intended to motivate a young audience—to encourage feedback and promote activism.
The design team employed exhibit techniques that engage all senses: brightly colored illustrations in a graphic novel format are used to address topics from the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa to the Pro-Democracy Movement in China to genocide in Darfur while inset monitors display actual news footage of the events. Protest songs from around the world are accompanied by animated treatments of the songs. Computer screens prompt visitors to take a stand on issues from gay marriage to school dress codes. Finally, visitors can leave their own story about human rights on a touch screen computer monitor and e-mail it to themselves or a friend.
A multi-screen media treatment featuring foot soldiers of the civil rights movement in Birmingham connects America’s struggle with civil rights to the on-going struggle for human rights around the world.
Recent human rights movements are dramatized in graphic novel format while an inset monitor relays news footage of the events. —Photo: Mark Gooch
Visitors are encouraged to share their own stories of discrimination or intimidation.
The armored vehicle used by police chief Bull Connors during the civil rights protests in Birmingham is a poignant artifact connecting the local and national stories.
Songs of protest from across generations and around the globe are featured in an exhibit entitled Shout It Out!