My background
Freelance communication designer for Almada Council (2002-2005)
Graphic designer at Spirituc, Lisbon (2001-04)
BA: (Hons) Communication Design, Lisbon (1996)

My expertise
Conceptual planning
Communication design
Interactive design

My focus
Interactive art
Urban interventions
Space, time, and movement theory in narrative spaces

My CV (pdf)

Mentor: Marc Garrett, FurtherField
Placement: Greyworld

Major Project
Interactive Storytelling Exhibitions
'we apologise but this exhibit is not working'
Communication and Interaction Design

Interactive Design and Storytelling are disciplines that hold enormous potential for engagement. My dissertation brings them together in the museum realm. It analyses how exhibition design is undergoing significant changes as museums increasingly aim to offer discovery and learning through new kinds of participatory and memorable experiences. Developments in media and sensor technology have enabled interactives to play a more central role in exhibitions, for example by being embedded directly into tangible objects or the surrounding space, reacting to visitor presence or action. No longer passive spectators, visitors are actively drawn into narrative, empowered with significant agency to explore the space, trigger events and develop their own interpretation of the story. Exhibitions thus emerge as immersive territories, to be explored in a first–person experience.





Contact
arlete@milkandtales.com
www.milkandtales.com

Collaborators
Editorial Design and Photography: Tiago Maia & me
Exhibition Concept and Development: Ana Melo, Tiago Maia & me
Exhibition Editor: Sophie Smith
Special thanks to those I interviewed: Tobi Schneidler, Lars-Ake Everbrand, Janice Mullin, Nick Bell, Paul Dennis & Esther Dugdale