Port of Vancouver Discovery Centre
The defining stories that shaped a port – and a city – in 40 feet.
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Exhibit Design, Content Development
Before it was Vancouver, it was the townsite of Granville – a collection of rough buildings and sawmills squatting between the stumps of a once mighty forest. Earlier still, before the shoreline was spied from the decks of Spanish and English galleons, the tide laid out a banquet of marine bounty for the Coast Salish people and their ancestors.
Vancouver’s waterfront is rich with story from a thousand perspectives and it was Resolve Design’s challenge to research, identify, sift, and distill the stories into those that defined the evolution of the Port of Vancouver. We delved into the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s extensive collection to curate a selection of artifacts to pair with the defining stories and archival photographs. The result is a 40-foot long jewel box-like display of Vancouver’s port history presented in a space designed by Waddell & Conder, fabricated by 3DS, and expertly lit by Eos Lightmedia.
- Architecture
- studio B architects
- Experiential design and strategy
- Waddell & Conder
- AUDIO VISUAL SYSTEM DESIGN, SUPPLY & INSTALLATION:
- Eos Lightmedia
- LIGHTING DESIGN, SUPPLY & INSTALLATION:
- Eos Lightmedia
- History Wall artifact curation and content development
- Resolve Design
- History Wall graphic design
- Resolve Design
- History Wall writing
- Megan Long
- Wayfinding design
- Resolve Design
- fabrication
- 3DS: Three Dimensional Services Inc.
- Touch table and projection content design and programming
- Burnkit