Selected work

Asian Arts Initiative · Immersive exhibition storytelling

No Arena: Making a Movement

A bold, media-rich virtual exhibition about organizing, memory, and the fight to protect Philadelphia’s Chinatown.

A colorful community exhibition filled with protest art, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes
Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production

The experience

No Arena needed a digital form as energetic as the exhibition itself. The experience uses the visual language of posters, paint, community collage, and public space to carry the movement online.

01 / Challenge

Make the physical place make sense online.

Preserve the density, emotion, and many voices of an activist exhibition while keeping the interface welcoming and legible.

02 / Response

Design the visit, not just the interface.

Treat the interface as part of the exhibition: tactile textures, story-led stops, embedded audio and video, and an opening sequence that establishes place before visitors begin exploring.

03 / Result

Give every visitor a way into the story.

A virtual tour with a distinct point of view—one that supports both free exploration and an accessible, linear reading of the exhibition.

What I did

  • Creative direction
  • 360° photography
  • Custom UI design
  • Accessible storytelling

Experience features

  • Eighteen story-led stops
  • Audio, video, and archival media
  • Community collage viewer
  • Accessible text-and-image tour

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