Designs for “In Pursuit of Freedom” for the Brooklyn Historical Society & The Weeksville Heritage Center are presently on view at the Boston Society of Architects, 52 Board Street, Boston. The exhibition will be up through the end of March. The project will be featured in Keith Moskow and Robert Linn’s forthcoming book Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living published by Princeton Architectural Press.
In Pursuit of Freedom on view at Boston Society of Architects
Published February 12th, 2010 in news. 0 CommentsMake History in the New York Times Today: Jake talks to Alex Wright about Crowd-sourcing Museum Collections
Published January 20th, 2010 in news. 0 Comments
Alex Wright interviewed Jake about Make History, the site Local Projects created for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a leader in the bottom-up museum collections movement.
“The key is to use constraints,” said Jake Barton, the lead designer for Make History. “Just giving visitors an open mike is the least kind thing you can do. We are asking for people’s experiences, but that doesn’t relieve us of the responsibility to share a narrative with the visitor.” Read full article here
Ian Curry on Storytelling through Interaction Design: Wed. 1/13 @ Galapagos
Published January 11th, 2010 in news. 0 Comments
Join seasoned Senior Interaction Designer Ian Curry of Local Projects this Wednesday as he discusses designing our recent “Make History” storytelling web initiative for the National September 11 Memorial Museum at Galapagos Art Space. The talk is entitled “The Storytellers” and is part of the Dot Dot Dot MFA Interaction Design Lecture Series. Here’s how they describe it:
“The Storytellers”
People are natural storytellers, and as interaction designers, it’s our job to navigate the relationship between people and the objects they use every day. Is there a story that is unfolding between people and their products? Are stories organic? How do they emerge? Do interfaces tell a story? Should we be designing with a narrative in mind? Join us to hear short lectures from four very different perspectives on the story and our role in it.
6:30-8:30pm, $6
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Recently Jake presented at GOOD Design NYC, presented by GOOD at Nau, a showcase for ways design can serve New York. Local Projects took on the question of “How can we get more people to ride their bikes?” from Rick Bell and Sherida Paulsen of AIA NY. Local Projects proposed BIKE IT! a super-charged iPhone app that calculates time and money saved as well as calories burned plus locations of other cyclists through interactive bus shelters.
Watch Poptech’s video of the talk here:
Jake presents Local Projects’ work in the Netherlands to a distinguished audience
Published November 4th, 2009 in news. 0 Comments
Jake criss-crossed the Netherlands this past week, presenting work to both the States-General and the Nationaal Historisch Museum’s New Museum Lab international conference on new media and technology in collaboration with the technical universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente and Mediamatic Lab.
Local Projects @ SEGD Dynamic Environments 3 November 12-13 in NYC
Published November 3rd, 2009 in news. 0 Comments
Interaction designer Jake Barton and his team at Local Projects / WXY Architecture have created a visitors center for the digital age, transforming what was once a warehouse for printed brochures into an interactive launchpad for the New York City tourist experience. The Official NYC Information Center is a happy hybrid of boutique retail design and interactive museum experience, with media elements that “…make the correlation between moving through the space and searching the content.”
See the Official NYC Information Center and meet Jake at the SEGD Dynamic Environments 3 workshop November 12 and 13 in New York. For information or to register, visit www.segd.org or call 202.638.5555.
If you find yourself near the grachtengordel reach out and say hi to Jake, in town for the Nationaal Historisch Museum’s New Museum lab event. Prefer to say hello in Warsaw? Jake will be there next week to visit our colleagues at The Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
911history.org sees 300,000 visits within 2 days of launch
Published September 14th, 2009 in news. 0 Comments
On the eve of 9/11/09, Local Projects launched Make History (911history.org) for the National 9/11 Memorial Museum, a world-wide initiative to gather any and every 9/11 story in an effort to understand history from the perspective of those who witnessed it. The whole Local Projects team watched wide-eyed, as an unprecedented 300,000 visits rolled in within the first days of launching, and phenomenal press coverage. Here’s the New York Times and the National Public Radio on the project. Local Projects Principal, Jake Barton spoke with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer on 9/11/09. Click here to download the recording.
Using the website, visitors can search, group and sequence any number of histories, photos or experiences, creating custom sequences by time, geography or theme. Each photo is overlaid on a current street-view image of the present day, creating a “double exposure” of past and present. Click here to learn more, and go to 911history.org to browse.
Pioneers of Change is a festival celebrating Dutch design, fashion and architecture is conceived and curated by Renny Ramakers, co-founder and director of Droog, as part of the NY400 week celebrations, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch to New York.
Jake will speak on a panel with fellow National Design Awards honoree Scott Stowell of Open, Arne Hendriks of Platform 21, moderated by Julie Iovine, Executive Editor Architects Newspaper.
Governor’s Island, New York City
Thursday, September 10 at 2:30 - 4:00
Local Projects created a new site for the Center for Architecture in New York City, which mixes programming from three separate institutions in a dense and almost urban-feeling homepage.
