Stories of Community-Driven Design
Welcome to Local Projects' content series exploring the role of listening in cultural work.
How do we listen, who do we listen to, and how do we incorporate what we learn in our work?
Listen in and find out.
Upcoming Conversations / April 28, 2022
Based on a True Story: Ethics and Opportunities in Immersive Storytelling
Featuring
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Moderator: Amanda White, Director of Content, Local Projects
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Stephanie Mehta, CEO of Fast Company and Inc Magazine
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Mia Tramz, Emmy Award-Winning Producer, Former Director of Innovation at TIME
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L’Rai Arthur-Mensah, Project Director, Local Projects
Featured Story
Q&A with the Creators of HBO’S Watchmen and Greenwood Rising
Check out our conversation creator of HBO's Watchmen Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) and lead writer Cord Jefferson (Station 11, The Good Place, Master of None) for a chat with Greenwood Rising museum director Phil Armstrong, and the Local Projects team.
Throughout the conversation, we investigate how both the museum design and Watchmen teams engaged the Tulsa community in reckoning with a tragedy that was deliberately hidden from history books.
A conversation with Creative Director Eric Mika
Storymaking: Part I
Creative Director and Director of Creative Technology shares how we give visitors the tools to build narrative themselves through an exploration of the context and rules that drove a story into being.
Continuing our conversation with Creative Director Eric Mika
Storymaking: Part II
In this continuation of our conversation, LP’s most tenured Creative Director Eric Mika explores how we can rediscover the lost meaning of objects that express their function through their form, shares the technologies he thinks hold the most untapped potential, and gives us a sneak peek into the studio’s latest work with IBM.
Watch the first LISTENERS panel
Your Community Is Your Collaborator
What new solutions and ideas will move cultural institutions towards a more inclusive future? To give some guidance on how cultural institutions should navigate these crucial questions, we invited leaders from the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of Science and Industry, and LaPlaca Cohen to join us in conversation. Check out key takeaways and the recorded panel session.
Tapping Into Emotion
Our Design Approach
Welcome to Listeners, where we’ll share the many ways in which the art of listening has made us into better experience and exhibit designers. Let’s kick things off with a look at how we tap into visitors' emotions: by using immersive visual design and digital media to activate visitors’ five senses, and by bringing them face-to-face with historic and contemporary figures.
