Zitat des Tages von Jake Barton:
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?
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.
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.
As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.
It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
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.
Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
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.
People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.