Our Process
EXP Studios’ process, honed over 40 years and 500 projects fulfilled, begins with a partnership bond with our clients....YOU! EXP has the experience, the proven track record, the skill sets needed and rigorous project management to bring your world of ideas to life. Our clients bring inspiration to our guild of talented writers, designers, artists and programmers. Below you will find the critical stages in the life cycle of a project, sometimes the life cycle is a year long journey and sometimes it’s a decade but what is important is that EXP brings a road map for your project journey. Please find below, “process milestones” which guide our project timing sequence and journey.
Digital Rendering created by EXP Studios for a vision plan of The Berkshire Museum
Vision Planning
Often, before a client has full funding, EXP Studios will assist in the nascent stages of a project not yet fully formed or financed. EXP provides content development, artist visualizations and architectural programming required to raise profile, communicate with the public and raise funding privately and through grants. EXP has directly raised millions of dollars of funding and profound levels of good will for clients and their constituents.
Visitor Metrics
EXP Studios are committed visitor advocates. We provide community outreach, focus group study and analysis to perfectly target content messaging and design to fit visitor need, interest as well as cultural appropriateness. On a micro-scale, EXP will conduct onsite multi day sessions on location with visitors to present and test media, content and design. On a macro-scale, community based presentations engage communities in a dialogue.
Experience Design
Once our team has a funding plan, a clear content and interpretive plan and a strong understanding of visitation, EXP develops an “experience map” and schematic design through a design process of investigating options. In a tangible way, we begin to see sketches, 3-D models, fly throughs and content flow diagrams as we can now at this stage see and feel the experience.
Media Integration
Given our daily trend towards the meta-verse platform, EXP since the year 2000 invested critical capital in it’s Experience Media unit. Experience Media’s mission is to sensitively integrate digital media into visitor experiences in a way that enhances learning, connectivity to ideas and provide unique moments that can’t be had at home. For example, Experience Media has collaborated with faculty of the MIT Media Lab to push the boundaries of media and cognitive environments.
Fabrication
EXP Studios has a 10,000 square foot fabrication facility which includes a CNC router, Powermatic industrial equipment, metal, wood and mixed materials workstations. Our Museum Artisans have created a true to life scale Nova Scotia cliff, a desert, a tropical rainforest, a 10 foot Snoopy, WWII battle scenes from every battle theater around the world to name a few accomplishments. We utilize old world and new era craftsmanship. Conveniently located near the Rhode Island School of Design, EXP recruits from this world-famous design school to staff its fabrication unit.
Post Opening
Once your project has opened, EXP provides ongoing tech training in order to ease our clients into the ownership of its newly created visitor experience.
