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For more information about the 6 exhibits that will be running alongside of ours, click on the link.

The days and hours we'll be open is also in the gallery information.

Share the website kix.uwaterloo.ca with all your friends. We cover such a large range of topics that we promise a fun and interesting experience for everyone. Mark your calendars!

Mushroom Transformation

Before

During

After

There are no after pictures, you need to go see it in person!

Come visit our exhibit March 14 - 16 in the UW Art Gallery, East Campus Hall, to see the final product.

Thank you Dan for posing for that awesome picture!

A Day in the Workshop

11:00 AM
Julie and Christina meet at the Lens Mills store to check out their foam selections. The 4" thick foam Julie wanted for comfy stools were out of stock. The nice foam Christina wanted for the mushroom stalk didn't cover enough surface area.
Figuring stuff out.
Getting lost in aisles.
Figuring more stuff out.
Converting yards to meters to inches and back again.
Resisting the temptation of rolling in all this stuffing.
[...]
Finally, we end up buying a whole lodda white stuff that we think is meant for insulating helmets, some fabric, and a giant stuffed pillow.

Lots of fluff

12:00 PM

We go and pick up Kathy, run after some cats, fill up the car with lumber.

12:15 PM

Timmy's stop. It's that time of year again! Rrrrrrrrroll up the rim! 

12:30 PM

Unload everything at the workshop. Christina is reunited with her giant mushroom stalk.

So proud!

12:45 PM

We have successfully taken over and cluttered three work benches, found a cardboard box as a model for our house, and realized that no one won at Roll up the Rim :(

Useful junk

2:00 PM

We have some kind of mushroom outline drawn onto our foamy fabric to stick onto the sonotube and chicken wire. Kathy is hammering away at the house (which is no longer a cardboard box).

2:30 PM

We figure out how to make the stuff temporarily hold onto the mushroom stalk. We can begin trimming away.

Clamps!

3:15 PM

We call it a day!

Progress Update

It's already mid-February and we're beginning to encounter some difficulties.

1. It turns out that our study isn't statistically significant after all. 17 long pages of analysis... Don't worry though, we'll still be serving tea during the exhibit.
2. UW really cherishes their projectors. Maybe too much. MAD lab will give us only one, ITMS won't even part with one because they're scared it will be hard on the light bulb. Looking into overheads now.
3. The plane of plexi-glass we bought is the wrong shape for our beautiful table frame. We'll fix it though.

4. We are starting to experience withdrawal symptoms. We are so busy that we have not really had a true imagineer meeting in a very long time. This makes us very, very sad. Us NEEDS girl bonding time!!!  ♥ ♥ ♥ 

So little time, so much to do!

We had to create a Gantt chart so that we appear nice and organized.

Yup! This beauty sure makes us look like we know what we're doing!

About Us and a Big Thank You

A HUGE thanks to all the participants that showed up on Monday, we really appreciate it!!! It will make us look really smart when our study results are significant. We are so thankful that we promise you some more tea and treats at the actual exhibit in March! :)


Here's a fancy blurb about this program:


The Knowledge Integration program at the University of Waterloo is about understanding disciplinary differences, design as a framework for solving complex problems, and collaboration.  The design of museum exhibits is a practice requiring interdisciplinary teamwork combined with academic rigour. To demonstrate interdisciplinarity in action and practice applied knowledge integration, groups of students in the program build a museum exhibit in their third year. From March 14 to March 16, this exhibition will be on display in the University of Waterloo Art Gallery in East Campus Hall. Exhibits cover the range of biology, technology, history, art, mathematics and discovery. Come learn about the topics, learn about Knowledge Integration, and see what our students have created!


For more about what we're up to, check out our student society's website: KISS.