LocalProjects

Jake lectures at Pecha Kucka, part of an overnight extravaganza on the “Dimensions of a New City.”  Come see him speak at 10:17pm on Saturday, May 7th and find out more about the event here.

Jake lectures at the Hartford Art School about current work at Local Projects. Monday November 15 at 2:30pm.

Jake is giving a talk at AIGA’s Gain Conference in New York City about the process of designing the New York Official Information Center with Willy Wong of NYC&Co.

Check it out!

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.

Check out the project here

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

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.

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.

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

Check out Jake at Brown University on April 10, giving a lecture on “Designing Public History” with Rosten Woo, Executive director and co-founder, The Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Friday, April 10, 12:00-1:30 p.m. John Nicholas Brown Center, Nightingale Brown House, Library

How do current events and lived experience evolve and settle into what is considered “history”? How can representations of the past influence our interpretation of the present? This messy process involves discourse, dialogue, and negotiations between major and minor histories, public and private stories. Here to discuss their parts in the process are Jake Barton of Local Projects and Rosten Woo of the Center For Urban Pedagogy, two leading firms that design public history in a variety of formats. Their projects deal with a wide spectrum of contexts and approaches: from the challenges of designing for national institutions like the September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center or NPR’s StoryCorps, to the problems of recasting the history of a single maligned street in Brooklyn. In their presentations, Barton and Woo will investigate the role of conflict, aesthetics and voice in representing public history.

Not sure what to do after Election Day? If you are in NYC on November 11th, please join us for PERSONAL SPACES/PUBLIC VISIONS hosted by AIGA/NY. Jake will be moderating the discussion between Liz Diller and Michael Rock as they explore the balance between private theory and public practice.