Poverty Encounter — Children's Hunger Fund
Poverty Encounter, a four-room immersive walkthrough experience at Children's Hunger Fund's warehouse facility in Sylmar, California, opened December 8, 2018, designed by Visioneering Studios (architecture) and Storyland Studios (exhibit design). It received a 2020 Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Limited Budget category.
| Venue | Children's Hunger Fund |
|---|---|
| Project type | Installation |
| Status | Completed |
| Year completed | 2018 |
| Technologies | themed sets, special effects, simulated environments |
Credits
| Firm | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| visioneering-studios | Architecture | Designed the full-sensory learning environment, per Visioneering Studios' own project page (below the 3-project threshold). |
| storyland-studios | Exhibit Design | Designed the physical environments, sets, special effects, and storyline, per Storyland Studios' own project page (below the 3-project threshold). |
Description
Visitors board a simulated airplane and move through four recreated developing-world environments — a Guatemala City dump, earthquake-damaged Haitian streets, a Nepali brickyard, and a Romanian underground sewer — before packing food for children living in poverty.
Sources
- https://childrenshungerfund.org/poverty-encounter/
- https://www.storylandstudios.com/work/poverty-encounter/
- https://www.visioneeringstudios.com/poverty-encounter-by-childrens-hunger-fund
- https://www.inparkmagazine.com/26th-tea-thea-awards-announced/
- https://www.teaconnect.org/recipients/26th-annual-thea-award-recipients