Project Ex
Museum of Broken Relationships: Pittsburgh

About the project

Our partnership with CMU and the Museum of Broken Relationships
We are team Project Ex from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Project Ex serves as the design team for the Pittsburgh exhibition of the Museum of Broken Relationships (MoBR). First launched in Zagreb, MoBR is a traveling exhibition that shows human stories about relationship loss, through the objects these relationships leave behind. Ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary, these objects become shorthand for human storytelling.

Project Ex is responsible for the design of the exhibition space, in partnership with our client, CMU Professor Jane Bernstein. Bernstein’s class interviews donors to collect objects and stories from the greater Pittsburgh community, particularly those in marginalized populations. Taking these stories into account, we design the guest experience to complement and highlight the Pittsburgh centered stories with the museum’s permanent collection. In addition to designing the exhibition around the collected stories, we are designing an interactive element to the gallery space. We aim to engage and include the guest in interactive storytelling during their visit to the exhibition. The show, opening in December 2016, will run for one month at the Mine Factory in Pittsburgh.

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Museum of Broken Relationships

A haven for lost love

The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum's collection.

The museum is opening an exhibit in Pittsburgh in the coming winter displaying objects from the original Zagreb collection as well as items collected by Carnegie Mellon students enrolled in Professor Jane Bernstein's class.

Meet the team

Sarabeth Boak

Producer
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Chaoying (Dandan) Du

Programmer
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Wen-Hsin (Winnie) Lin

Experience Designer, Artist
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Abhishek Ravi

Sound Designer, Artist
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Xuelai (King Kong) Zhang

Lead Artist
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Chris Klug

Faculty Instructor
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Shirley Saldamarco

Faculty Instructor
Entertainment Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
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Jane Bernstein

Client
Professor of English
Carnegie Mellon University
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