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Interview with Darren Barnes - Exhibitions Director

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BS TQ style? TQ style?

DB TQ style? What the, the kind of very fundamental structures of the oval and the tube? Cylindrical structures. The black plinth - in order to try and elevate the exhibit itself. To offer the exhibit up from the surface. From the ground, the plinth itself allows you to access the exhibit very easily. Practically it's painted black so we can easily repaint that plinth, so it keeps fresh, cause that's where your feet efectively hit the side of the exhibit. The bright colours are our trademark. Things like the "MusiQuest" we bring in the purples the oranges the, little bit of glass, little bit of, wood finish. But not to an extreme so it, it won't stand out as a completely different, thing, but it will have the, you walk into Techniquest and think something is new because you actually see the new style, to a point, though that's a - If you walk into a car park, you know, the car would have to be bright luminous pink for you to notice any other different cars because all the different cars that we have are, you know, it doesn't matter we've got all different shapes and designs. So what, what we may think within the office that, is a really amazing revolutionary new designed car, just cause it has one door instead of two, most people in the car park are going to walk past it.

So, so, it's - things from the design point of view can come, become very, very important. And to get it right, it's such a fine balance, you know. It's kind of literally a matter from the proportion point of view. It can be a couple of millimetres on something, where, it'll look right or won't look right. And part of the reason that we prototype and the way that we build exhibits - we will build the mock-up of the base of the, Scalectrix. We will try the Scalectrix on top, kind of ( ) where the handles sit, measure it up, imagine where it will be. Sit in a wheelchair turn the handle on it make sure you can access it. Actually stand up on your knees - you kind of bring your arms in a bit closer to imagine you're a little kid and, sort of, see what you can actually see. At what height will your head height be in order to read the label or any of the text, that sort of thing.

So accessibility, ergonomics,attractiveness. They need to be able to use the exhibit when they get there, but you need to be able to get people to exhibit in the first place so you need to make it attractive. And it's got to work. It's kind of the third thing but it is kind of the most important. They're all important. You've got to make them all work at the same time.