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April 1, 2010

NY1, April 2010

“[September 11th] was a moment of shared witness,” said September 11th Museum Director Alice Greenwald. “We believe a third of the world’s population actually witnessed the events transpire on 9/11 virtually in real time over the course of the day as the news reports repeated throughout the day and the evening. That’s an extraordinary amount of the world seeing the same thing at the same time. So this was a moment when the world truly came together in the midst of a catastrophic event.”

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March 19, 2010

The Jewish Daily Forward, March 2010

“The museum’s survey of 350 years of American Jewish history ends with the Contemporary Issues Forum, wherein visitors can respond to a provocative question, such as, “Is intermarriage a threat to religious communities?” They choose a card color-coded to their response – “yes,” “no,” or “um.” There’s also space for messages. The card is then scanned and physically placed on a wall. In this way responses can be tabulated and visitors can read what others feel about the topic, forming a kind of conversation between past and present visitors.”

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March 1, 2010

The Weekly Press, March 2010

“This custom-made technology will fill the exhibit with the dissent, passion and dialogue that embodies the American Jewish and American experience,” said Perelman. “It’s a level of engagement rarely found in public institutions.”…The interactive exhibits are being created by Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces that creates a diverse range of installations, from large environmental interactives, websites, and mobile applications, to simple experiences composed of thumbtacks and vellum. Local Projects creates media projects that are integrated into architecture, that connect people with the world and each other, and that inspire awe and wonder.

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The Miami Herald, March 2010

The Miami Herald caught up with Local Projects’ team recently: “Filmmakers for the National Museum of American Jewish History, scheduled to open in November on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, were in South Florida this week.”

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February 12, 2010

In Pursuit of Freedom on view at Boston Society of Architects

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.

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January 20, 2010

Make History in the New York Times Today: Jake talks to Alex Wright about Crowd-sourcing Museum Collections

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

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January 19, 2010

The New York Times, January 19, 2010

“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.”

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January 11, 2010

Ian Curry on Storytelling through Interaction Design: Wed. 1/13 @ Galapagos

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

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January 5, 2010

GOOD Mag Covers BIKE IT!

BIKE IT!
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.

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January 1, 2010

Interactions, January/February 2010

“In a world where anyone can publish, and seemingly everyone does, what is the role of cultural institutions in curating our collective memory? Can “official” institutional versions of history coexist with this proliferation of constantly shifting personal expression? Or is such a distinction growing increasingly meaningless in a networked world? Jake Barton of Local Projects has been wrestling with these questions for the past few years as he works with the National September 11 Museum & Memorial team to build Make History (http://makehistory.national911memorial.org/), a new site that allows individuals to share their photos, videos, and personal stories of the event.” -Alex Wright

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