SLAM JAM: THE PAST IS A DRAFT is an open-archive retrospective where visitors navigate SLAM JAM’s design journey through a personalized mobile app. The exhibition becomes both a living manuscript and a blueprint for a printed catalogue, blurring the line between archive and performance. Each interaction leaves a trace, turning the act of viewing into a collaborative gesture of authorship.
Inspired by SLAM JAM’s ethos that “chaos is an order,” this project interprets the audience’s active participation, reorganizing and reordering SLAM JAM’s history, as a design language that deconstructs and reconstructs the logic of the index. Within a set of restrictions on color, typography, environment, and tone, the UI/UX was designed to explore new modes of communication, encouraging experimentation within constraints.
