Exhibits | The Ubuntu Lab

Exhibits

Seum exhibits are live by design—a place to make sense of now. A new timeframe of updates, weekly not annually, combining story, data, and dialogue so visitors leave with clarity and a next step.

Iconic Exhibits

Each Seum contains a few touchpoint exhibits that get updates as the world evolves.
As research emerges or the moment changes, or new stories emerge. These exist in the evergreen exploration of what it means to be human today.

Zeitgeist Breathing

The pulse of the moment

Step into a living pulse of the planet. Zeitgeist Breathing surrounds you with a 270° wraparound of imagery, video, and live social feeds curated globally and locally. With a swipe you can calm the flow into a meditative stream, or unleash a cascade of energy like a digital storm. It feels part newsfeed, part memory, part future… an invitation to sense the society moving and to discover your place within it.

Knowledges Wall

What and how we know

Modeled after the joy of browsing a record store, the Knowledges Wall invites you to pick up and play with humanity’s deepest ideas. Lift an artifact, and researchers’ theories, indigenous knowledges, cultural narratives, or lived experiences come alive through story, video, and image. The experience is tactile, curious, and layered, showing knowledge that is not just academic but embodied, contested, and shared. Visitors leave with a broadened sense of how humanity has always sought to know itself.

Data View

Information Literacy

At Data View, social data becomes something you can touch, manipulate, and question. Through interactive displays, projections, and physical objects, visitors can explore patterns in migration, inequality, climate, or community life. It’s not just about learning statistics, it’s about cultivating literacy in how information shapes our world. You walk away both sharper and humbler: aware of the stories numbers can tell, and of the responsibility we carry when interpreting them.

Elder Sphere

Drop the wisdom

The Elder Sphere is a sanctuary of wisdom, an architectural sculpture alive with light, text, and voice. Step inside and you’re surrounded by the words of those who shaped the world, some living, some long gone, offered through video and AI-facilitated dialogue. It is not nostalgia but provocation: their stories challenge you to carry lessons forward, to act with courage, and to dream bigger. You leave not just inspired, but accountable to the future.

1000 Stories

Leave your mark

Imagine a library of humanity that never stops growing. On towering touchscreens, you can sweep through photos, voices, and videos of people answering one question: “What makes me human?” Some stories are curated by Ubuntu Lab, others are left behind by visitors like you. It is both intimate and immense, an archive where difference and similarity sit side by side. Each encounter leaves you changed, with one more thread woven into your sense of belonging.

Topical Exhibit

A fast-cycle exhibit that tracks the public mind—refreshed monthly, with weekly updates as the moment shifts. You might expect to see exhibits answering questions like:

Is Artificial Intelligence a danger to my future, or is it a new expression of my humanity?
Will we ever be able to work together to address climate change?
In the midst of culture wars, is "unity in diversity" an empty slogan or a realistic possibility?
Who or what can I trust when everything feels created, or influenced, or corrupted?

What is 'Humanity' About?

The topic of humanity is the subject of curiosity and research from ancient eras through to today. We draw from multiple traditions to explore humanity with visitors, in conversation:

The Academy

Drawing on the work of researchers

and experts in the social sciences, humanities, and human sciences.

Applied Fields

We bring the perspectives and practices of those who see the world through the lens of people, from systems thinking and futures & foresight, to architecture and design.

Indigenous, Spiritual & Cultural Traditions

We bring in the knowledge represented in relational worldviews, intergenerational teachings, rituals, and contemporary cultural practices

Lived Experience & Current Narratives

By bringing input from journalism, community stories, grassroots movements, personal and collective reflection, we bring this topic to life and to a human level.