Information, Education and Communication: Exhibitions


Exhibitions:

Almost every Health Educator uses the exhibit to some extent. If you are not using exhibits, perhaps You should ask yourself whether you have opportunities to do so to advantage in libraries, in the department lobby, Foyer, or window, at fairs, health meetings, or schools, in store windows, public clinics, and in many other places.

What?

An educational exhibit is a planned and systematic arrangement of graphic materials, models, specimens, dioramas, eEtc. correlated around a basic theme. It is designed to focus the attention of the observer on a topic of educational significance.

Advantages:

  1. One of the best media for reaching illiterates.
  2. Publicity value.
  3. It has imaginative appeal.
  4. It caters to the mind, heterogeneous audience.
  5. It can fir into festive occasions and can serve recreational requirements.
  6. It can stimulate competitive spirit when exhibitions are put up by several others.
  7. By providing a wide variety of media, they create an atmosphere of learning and further widen the learning horizon.


Limitations:

  1. Requires mush preparation and investment.
  2. Can not be widely used (less frequent).
  3. Can not be used repeatedly at the same plan without making substantial changes.
  4. It can not represent all phases of work.
  5. A badly arranged exhibit will elicit damaging effects.


PLANNING AND PREPARING DISPLAYS:

Begin planning well in advance.
It takes time to get together a good exhibit.

It is essential that the organization should be clear about the purposes or objectives before executing the displays. The purposes have got to be pin-pointed and specific. The purposes, resulting in selection of location, contents And techniques of exhibits are related to the following questions:

  1. What is the central theme or important idea?
  2. What is to be communicated?
  3. What materials and contents will be most effective?
  4. Analyze and evaluate your audience.


The exhibit is for them, you know. You are not making it for yourself. It is to interest and educate a particular kind of audience.

Outlining preliminary Plans. Finalize your plane for the display in a discussion session. It is essential and Rewarding to involve as many workers as possible. Analyze the central theme into sub-topics for each individual display. Taking care that ultimately they have to be integrated into a coherent and meaningful exhibition. Make committee and Keeping in view the individual abilities and interests, assign jobs and cuties to execute and finalize the exhibits.

Decide upon the type of exhibit:

In the order or decreasing interest, the three common types are:

  1. Live models people, demonstrations, animals, actual specimens, food to eat, babies being examined, laboratory Tests being made, an iron lung in operation.
  2. Models a stage, set, working model of a sand filter, model of a street cleaning situation, models of insects which Carry diseases, diorama (three dimensional display in which the model fades into a picture at the back), puppet shows.
  3. Visualization pictures of people and activities (blown up all the way to life size), charts, diagrams, maps, Graphs, silhouettes, transparencies, slides, mirrors, motion pictures.


  1. decide to what senses you will appeal.
  2. Sight (Of course).
  3. Hearing. (The voice direct or on film or record or by radio or telephone. Sound effects of various kinds. Of course you will not use more sound with your exhibit than you would be willing to have each of the Other exhibitors use).
  4. Taste. (Food or beverages).
  5. Smell. (Flowers, smoke, leather).
  6. Touch. (Some apparatus or material can be handled.)


Visitors are interested in its hardness, its texture, its weight, etc. Prepare a more detailed visual plan or lay out of the Exhibit the what of your exhibit. Just what are you going to show? Write out your plan. Make a preliminary Sketch with dimensions, layout, and color scheme indicated. Begin to fill in details.

Pay attention to the display fundamentals that involve:

The space available,
The size and shape of the materials,
The use of Colour,
The provision for lighting, and
The lettering techniques.

PREPARING THE EXHIBITS:

After the visualized plan has been properly analyzed, start collecting the materials, keeping in view the location And the space for the exhibits. Generally small exhibits can be developed on bulletin boards fixed at convenient sports. For bigger exhibitions, community halls, specially constructed pandals etc. can be used. Each of the exhibit has to be protested before putting into exhibition hall. While preparing and arranging the exhibits the following are some of the guiding principles:

  1. Choose and illustrate the headline.
    1. It should be brief, forceful, clear and direct.
    2. It should be hold, easy to read from any spot in the room, horizontal, colorful and contrasting.
    3. Use either script or block letters. The former can be made of string, wire, etc. and the latter, Of cut paper card-board, or wood.
    4. Clever wood combinations and phrases attract attention.
    5. Pose questions or create problems. They are motivating and involving.
  2. Arrange and illustrate the contents.
    1. Use illustrative materials that catch the eye. The choice can be made from a wide variety of graphic and three- Dimensional materials, such as photographs, drawings, charts, maps, graphs, posters, realias, objects, etc.
    2. Match the arrangement and materials against the background, shocking or intense backgrounds are hard to live with; color must not dazzle or dance if it is to serve as background for acting and thinking.
    3. Compose the materials artistically, keeping in view the basis essentials of balance and continuity.
    4. Use arrows, Colour and interesting shapes to draw attention to special areas.
    5. Highlight the main theme by a catchy device. It may be an illustration or it may be the brightest on the Largest item on the board.
  3. Use Colour in pleasing combinations.
    1. Colour have functional aspects which heighten the reconstruction of reality and provide strong Emotional and psychological effects.
    2. A jumble of colorful splashes are worse than none. They divide rather than units. About three Colour not Counting the background are suggested.
    3. Create an accept with pure Colour and use shades and tints in the larger areas. Use warn and cool colors Together for contrast. Warm colors, such as red, appear closer to the observer than do cool colors such as blue.