American - Designer | November 7, 1972 -
People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.
Jake Barton
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Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.
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People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
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A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
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Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
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People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
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The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.
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You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?
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Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.
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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
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