“Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced private grants to 19 community groups to fund gardening, composting and stewardship of the city’s community gardens and other green spaces.” The groups applied for grants through nyc.changeby.us, a new city-run website created by Local Projects. To read more about the projects receiving grants, click here.
Creative Review’s great article about Jake and LP: http://t.co/ofB46B4Z http://t.co/xeX6w7lK
“Jake Barton and his Local Projects team are months away from the launch of a career-defining project: the design of the exhibits for the 9/11 Memorial Museum.” To read more about the Museum and the work being done at Local Projects, click here.
Check out Jake’s talk at MoMA’s “Talk to Me” symposium on Wednesday, October 19th at 11:30am!… http://t.co/QZKt7I9u
Listen to Jake Barton give a lecture with Tahir Hemphill at 11:30am on Wednesday, October 19th at MoMA’s Talk to Me symposium- a daylong program featuring presentations, conversations, interviews, and performances on the subjects of design and script writing, cognitive science, gaming, augmented reality, and communication. For more information on the event, click here.
Media design firm Local Projects is already known for its work on the oral history project called StoryCorps. “When the museum opens in September 2012, echoes of StoryCorps will be evident to anyone entering the 9/11 Memorial exhibition, a room where some 3,000 portraits line the walls and a central chamber plays audio accounts provided by loved ones.” To read the entire article, click here.
9/11 Memorial Museum Featured in The Wall Street Journal:… http://t.co/IoPXtgzI
Local Projects are the media designers for the exhibitions at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. One of the media pieces is the first things visitors to the museum will encounter. As they walk down a ramp, fragments of maps and audioscape of voices around the world recalling that day. For more information about the Museum and the exhibitions, click here.
Great Urbanology Video: http://t.co/qq7rhheL http://t.co/xhY61clb
The BMW Guggenheim Lab made a video about Urbanology, an interactive game designed by Local Projects that explores city’s systems. To watch the video, click here.
