INSIDE THE MUSEUM Experience. A Virtual Exhibition of Didactic Activities Using AR/VR Applications

The paper presents an experience of didactic activity carried out by master's degree students at the Politecnico di Torino. The introductory seminar entitled Inside the Museum aimed at developing an exhibition design for the FIAT Lingotto in Turin. The educational activity involves creating virtual and immersive environments for project enjoyment using free web-based solutions. As part of the course activities, an on-site temporary exhibition was developed to show students’ outcomes to the future student community. At the end of the exhibition, the teaching working group decided to replicate the display using a virtual environment hosted in an online repository, TeleArchitettura: the institutional web platform that collects didactic activities of academic courses of bachelor and master degrees. The creation of the digital assets for the virtual environment, follows the idea of creating a digital replica of the space where the exhibition took place (the container) and the work of students (the content). The use of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications developed by the students enrich the digital space augmenting the diversity of possible virtual interactions.