How to use Lakisa

1. Create an account

You need an account to build and publish exhibitions. Visiting a public exhibition needs none.

1. Open the sign-up page: Go to “Create my own” on the homepage, or open /register directly.
2. Choose how to sign up: Register with your email address and a password, or choose “Continue with Google” to sign up with your Google account. With Google, no password is set on Lakisa.
3. Sign in: Once your account is created you are signed in. Next time, use “Sign in” on the homepage (/login) with the same email and password, or with Google.
4. Keep your password safe: Do not share your account with anyone. If you forget your password, use “Forgot password” on the sign-in page to reset it by email.

2. Create an exhibition

An exhibition starts with a title and a first room. Everything else (more rooms, artworks, colours) happens in the editor.

1. Open Create: From your workspace, open “Create” (/create). The “Create exhibition” dialog appears.
2. Give it a title: The title is mandatory. It is what visitors see first. You can change it later.
3. Pick a room for the first room: Choose a room model for your first room. Sunlight Gallery is the default: a bright room with skylights. You can add more rooms later, in the editor.
4. Start as a draft: Your new exhibition is a draft. Only you can see it until you publish it (see step 5).

3. Add and place artworks

Your artworks live in a reusable library, and you hang them on the walls of the 3D editor.

1. Upload your works: Open “My artworks” (/artworks) to upload images of your work with their title, medium and dimensions. The library is shared across all your exhibitions: upload once, hang anywhere.
2. Add a work to a wall: In the 3D editor, add an artwork from your library to the room. It appears on the wall, at real size, from the dimensions you gave it.
3. Move it by hand: Double-click an artwork to select it, then drag it along the wall to move it. Click a wall to select it, then pick a colour to paint it.
4. Or let the editor hang the wall for you: Select the works for a wall and use “Compose wall”. The editor hangs them in one row at eye level (1.50 m), 12 cm apart, the largest work in the centre. If the row does not fit, it packs them into the wall instead. The whole composition undoes in one step (Ctrl+Z), and you can still drag any work afterwards.
5. Save: Save your work in the editor before you leave, and save again before you publish.

4. Choose a room

Each exhibition is built from one or more rooms. Every room has its own light, walls and floor.

1. Browse the room collection: Open “Lakisa Galerie” (/galleries) to walk through the rooms: Sunlight Gallery, Elegant Gallery (a night gallery), The Serpentine, The Vitrine, The Concrete Loft, The Arch, The Blue Museum, and more.
2. Add rooms in the editor: In the editor, add rooms to your exhibition and choose a model for each. Rooms keep the layout they were designed with: you choose the room, you do not redraw it.
3. Move between rooms while you work: Open the floor plan at the bottom left of the editor to jump between rooms and artworks without walking.

5. Share an exhibition

Publishing is a choice you make, and you decide who can enter. A draft is visible only to you.

1. Save, then Publish: In the editor, save your exhibition, then press “Publish”. A dialog asks how visitors may enter.
2. Public: The exhibition is listed on Lakisa (Explore, and the public galleries) and open to everyone. A public exhibition may also appear in the Lakisa Feed.
3. Private link: The exhibition is published but never listed. Only people with the direct link can open it. Anyone who receives the link can pass it on, and if it spreads further than you intended, set a password or return the exhibition to draft.
4. Password: The exhibition is published, but visitors must enter a password you set before they can enter.
5. Change your mind any time: You can change the visibility of a published exhibition, or unpublish it, whenever you like. Unpublishing removes it from public listings.

6. Visit an exhibition

Visitors walk through the rooms in their browser. No account, no download, no app.

1. Open an exhibition: Find one on the homepage, on Explore (/explore) or in the public galleries (/galleries), and open it. Public exhibitions open for everyone; a private-link exhibition needs its link, and a password exhibition asks for its password first.
2. Enter the room: The entry screen shows the exhibition's title, its artist and its artworks. Press “Enter the room” to walk in. If the artist made a guided tour, you can start it from here instead; a list view is also available if you prefer to browse the works first.
3. Walk: Use WASD or the arrow keys to move, drag to look around, and click the floor to walk to a spot. On a touch screen, use the on-screen walk controls.
4. Use the floor plan: Open the floor plan (the mini-plan) to see the rooms, jump to another room, or jump straight to an artwork.
5. Look at a work up close: Click an artwork to open its details: title, artist, medium, dimensions and description.

7. Manage your profile and your works

Everything you own lives in your workspace: your profile, your artworks and your exhibitions.

1. Edit your profile: In Settings, change your display name, biography and profile photo. This is what visitors see next to your exhibitions.
2. Manage your artworks: “My artworks” (/artworks) is your library: edit a work's title or details there, and the change applies everywhere the work is hung.
3. Manage your exhibitions: “My exhibitions” (/exhibitions) lists everything you have built, drafts and published shows. Open any of them in the editor, change its visibility, or unpublish it.
4. Change your password: Change your password from Settings. If you signed up with Google, there is no Lakisa password to change.
5. Delete your account: You can delete your account from Settings. Deleting it deletes your exhibitions, your artworks and your profile with them, permanently. Keep a copy of your original files outside Lakisa first.

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