YouthLink Calgary
Overview
The YouthLink Interpretive Centre is an innovative Calgary police museum with a mission to change lives by allowing youth to make better life decisions. It is powerful and impactful, playing a major role in the lives of Calgary’s youth.
Details
- Client
- Calgary Police Service
- Project
- YouthLink Calgary Police Interpretive Centre
- Size
- 25,000 sq. ft.
- Project Delivery
- Design-Build
- Scope
- Exhibit Design - Culture
- Location
- Calgary, AB, CA
- Year Completed
- 2015
Behind
The Scenes
Working with the youth advisory council was a memorable part of this project and gave us invaluable advice as we developed the exhibits and graphic look and feel. Their input had a fundamental impact on our work, helping to shape the content and media development. They were outspoken and decisive in a way that was refreshing. They requested nothing fake, no actors, no stock photography, and no long paragraphs of text. Instead, they wanted information parsed out into small pieces with bold graphics. Most impactfully, we used only real people from Calgary including incarcerated criminals. The YouthLink team used their connections with police officers to source individuals willing to be photographed, and interviewed in order to tell their stories. The resulting authenticity is palpable in the raw emotion that the exhibitions evoke.