Exhibit: Interactive Flood
Venue: Kickapoo Valley Visitors Center
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Date: Fall 2004
Client: Derse Exhibits
Contributors: Mystus, Derse

Visitor Experience: The Flood exhibit illustrates the phenomenon of resistance to flooding in forested areas compared with farmed areas. The visitor chooses from two buttons to make it rain on the forested or farmed regions. Rain on the farmed region quickly runs off and floods the lowlands because the river can't handle the amount of water. On the forested side however the water is absorbed into the absorbent toweling and is released to the river over a longer time without flooding.

*Project Challenges: This exhibit requires attention to many details including the subtleties of water flow over the model, creating a design to minimize mold build up, water conditioning, timing was critical, water leak prevention, robustness of components and simplifying for ease of routine maintenance.