Jake Barton
Jake Barton
Jake Bartonis an American designer, and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY. His work focuses on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth7 November 1972
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.
Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.
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People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
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People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
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It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
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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?
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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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.
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People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.
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As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.
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Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.
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Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.