INteractive walks for kids
Jessica is regularly commissioned to create interactive digital guides which foster child agency and offer alternatives to the familiar adult lens on places and ways of being. The experiences explicitly reverse the familiar hierarchy of knowledge to give children a feeling of belonging and ‘permission’ to interact with and read places in their own way.
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Jessica has become an expert at building step-by-step digital guides that invite and incorporate children’s observations and ideas as they are guided on walks of public art, galleries or outdoor places.
Her guides feel like a three-way conversation between the child, the device's prompts and the place.
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Jessica works with your local children to better understand the way they interact and would like to interact, with the chosen sites. She then crafts the interactive guides using no-code surveys for testing and iteration. Designer Vanessa Fernandez produces any maps and digital visuals required, creating beautiful graphics with an eye on drawing the user away from the device and into a guided experience of the real world.
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Recent commissions are two public art walks for children in the City of Ballarat, a survey of student feelings about lockdown for Monash University, and an interactive audio tour of the Abbotsford Convent with Boonwurrung Elder, Uncle Bill Nicholson Jnr.​
INTERACTIVE AUDIO TOUR
walking
country
With Uncle Bill​
Nicholson Jnr
