By the same token, I rather like Art's approach, starting from present and moving backward. Starting from the present puts it into the realm of the current, the things presumably the guest can most understand. Moving backward in time makes the translation less harsh, I think. If you start "at the beginning" of time, it may be a gee, that's nice, but doesn't make as much sense educationally as the other direction, which provides you foundation.
I understand the left-to-right bias thing, and I understand the reticence, but I think Art's makes better sense from an educational perspective. Just my two cents.
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Yes, to anyone who
learned to read that way, the left-to-right bias is extremely strong, and
changing it will make people uncomfortable and confused.
Anne
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Subject: Visitors reading
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We are constructing an exhibit on the co-evolution of horses and
grasslands and are having some disagreement about which direction our timelines
and evolutionary "bushes" should move.
Should a single panel or case have time move from the left to the right
- from millions of years ago to the present - regardless of the direction which
visitors approach the panel or case?
OR
If visitors approach the panel or case from the right, should time
start from the right and move to the left?
I think visitors will always look at the case as a whole and then start
observing from the left to the right, just how they read.
What do you think?
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