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Jake Barton at TED

Jake’s TED talk shares projects that turn observers into active participants.

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Greenwood Rising Shares Two Stories Of Tragedy In Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District

This haunting museum recreates the horrors of the Tulsa Race Massacre

New museum for America and the Bible opens at Independence Mall

NYTimes’ lead art critic Holland Cotter reviews Greenwood Rising

The New York Times

A new history center in Tulsa’s Greenwood district recounts a grievous past while spurring future change

The Architectural Newspaper

The Greenwood Massacre in Tulsa, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on

The Art Newspaper

A New Museum Dedicated to the Tulsa Race Massacre Lets Visitors Choose to See the Full Grim Picture, or Take an ‘Emotional Exit’

Local Projects Sponsors #AAM2021

Greenwood Rising featured in NYTimes Design Special Report

The New York Times

Faith and Liberty Discovery Center is opening across the street from Independence Mall

Philadelphia Enquirer

Faith and Liberty Discovery Center reveals opening date, begins ticket sales

Planet Word has won the Interaction Award for the Expressing category, our first win with the IXDA!

Norton Museum Of Art Brings Art to Life With AR

Planet Word: The World’s First Voice Activated Museum

3 Powerful Interactive Museum Exhibits Shed Light On The Path To Racial Justice

Norton Art+ debut in Forbes

Hyde Park Barracks Museum wins Australia’s Best Permanent Gallery

Australian Museums and Galleries National Awards

D.C.’s Newest Museum is Perfect for Kids … And It’s Free

The Daily Beast

Planet Word Where You Can Experience Language In Magical Ways You Never Imagined

Planet Word, A New D.C. Museum, Explores The Landscape of Language

Washington Post

At this awesome new museum, the exhibits respond to the sound of your voice

Christopher Fung on our Innovation by Design-winning work with the New York Times

Fast Company Innovation by Design

Local Projects + The NYTimes wins the Sylvia Harris Honors Award

We Talked to 25+ Cultural Institutions. Here Are Our Top Ideas for a COVID-Future

A message of solidarity

LP hosting free workshops on COVID-future adaptability

Race Massacre Centennial Commission Announces New Site for Greenwood Rising History Center

Public Radio Tulsa

The Hyde Park Barracks reopens with a new, immersive museum experience

Print? Digital? A Frame Awards-winning project took The New York Times spatial

Sydney’s 200-Year-Old Hyde Park Barracks Has Reopened After Its Multimillion-Dollar Transformation

Concrete Playground

Why the Hyde Park Barracks sets a new benchmark in museum practice

New virtual reality exhibit at DuSable lets users experience Dr. King’s ‘Dream’

Chicago Sun Times

First look: In virtual reality, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers soul-stirring ‘Dream’ speech at DuSable Museum

Chicago Tribune

Creating a museum for the future – Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks reimagined

A New York design company is set to revamp the National Museum of Australia

The NYTimes ‘The Truth Is Worth It’ Campaign Expands to Installations All Over New York City

What’s in a Word? Museum of Words Soon to Open in Nation’s Capital

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The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May

WASHINGTON POST

Our augmented reality audioguide for PACE Gallery’s new exhibition, Seeing Picasso: Maker of the Modern, makes its debut

SF museum to explore our dark side: domestic violence, bullying, school shootings

San Francisco Chronicle

Local Projects named Best Medium Design Studio, wins two Gold Awards

New York Design Awards

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commemoration Commission unveils exhibit designs for new museum

NYT Highlights Local Reporting

NY1 Spectrum News

Latest ‘New York Times’ Campaign Touts Local Reporting

New York Times Truth Is Worth It Campaign Expands to Installations All Over New York City

How Local Projects Creates The Museums Of The Future: 10 Unforgettable Global Experiences

Hyde Park Barracks closes for transformation

The Sydney Morning Herald

LP Interaction Designer Nina Boesch Reveals Her UX Secrets

Game On! Inside The New Amsterdam Fashion For Good Museum

The visitor souvenir at Amsterdam’s new Fashion for Good museum? An action plan

Fashion For Good museum in Amsterdam promotes responsible fashion

Fashion for Good Encourages Consumers to Be More Responsible About Consumption With New ‘Museum’ in Amsterdam

Women's Wear Daily

Two LP Projects Make TIME’s World’s Greatest Places 2018

A lost Roman temple reopens beneath London’s bustling streets

Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London

See renderings of Planet Word, the new museum coming to Franklin School

The Planet Word Museum breaks ground at the historic Franklin School – Washington

Washington Business Journal

Here’s What D.C.’s New ‘Planet Word’ Museum In The Franklin School Will Look Like

Oprah tours The Legacy Museum on 60 Minutes

New lynching memorial confronts the nation’s brutal history of racial terrorism

The Washington Post

The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.

The New York Times

Underground Roman Temple Reopens as Immersive Museum

How Jake Barton Creates Museum Magic

Fast Company visits One World Observatory with LP

Fast Company Profiles Local Projects

ARoS Experimenting with Our View on Art

In Conversation with Jake Barton 12th April 2017

In Home of Hip-Hop, a Concert Hall to Honor Its Musical History

The New York Times

A Mental Fitness Center

Meet Our NYTimes Brand Panel Castmates

This Museum Experience Lets You Redesign New York City

The Creator's Project

City Museums Look to the Future

How Interactive Design Can Help New Yorkers Envision Their City’s Future

Synthetic Biology Is … Complex. But This Exhibit Makes It a Blast

Valentine’s Day 2012: Bjarke Ingels Group ‘Hearts’ Times Square

International Business Times

East Village lot turned into BMW Guggenheim Lab, think tank for New Yorkers to make city better

New Yorkers Become Extras for Museum of the City’s New Game

The 5 Coolest Things About The Revamped Smithsonian Design Museum

The Cooper-Hewitt’s Connected Pen Brings Visitors Back, Online

Jake Barton at TED

The Tech Museum of Innovation Wins National Honor for Body Metrics Exhibit

At New Tech Museum Exhibit, Your Body Is the Work of Art

5 Lessons In UI Design, From A Breakthrough Museum

Target Open House featured in WIRED

The New Cooper Hewitt

Technology That Serves to Enhance, Not Distract

The New York Times

BIG ♥ NYC

Cleveland Museum Visitors Explore Art with Mobile App, Beacons

The Wall Street Journal

How Laurene Powell Jobs’ XQ Institute Is Inspiring Entrepreneurs To Help Fix America’s High Schools

Jake Barton at MuseumNext

Jake Barton at Eyeo 2015

The Museum of the Future Is Here

The Atlantic Monthly

Interview with Jake Barton, Founder of Local Projects

9/11 Enters the Realm of Museum

9/11 Memorial Museum Wins at Cannes

Nathan Adkisson at PSFK Future of Retail

Want Kids To Be More Interested In STEM Classes? There’s An App For That

The Coolest Thing About 1 World Trade Center’s New Observatory Isn’t The View

Jake Barton at Eyeo 2013

Laurene Powell Jobs Commits $50 Million to Create New High Schools

The New York Times

Newly Playful, by Design

The New York Times

Bryan Stevenson Wants Us to Talk More About Slavery

At Museum on 9/11, Talking Through an Identity Crisis

The New York Times

Jazz at Lincoln Center to Redesign Rose Hall Atrium

The New York Times

Apps to Bring Math and Science Skills Back After Summer’s Slide

The New York Times

What Made New York New York? Henry Hudson, George Washington and a Silver Subway Shovel

The New York Times

Creating Enduring Experiences Through Storytelling: Interview With Local Projects

Comedians’ Holograms to Headline National Museum of Comedy

The Hollywood Reporter

Health Systems Hope Social Initiatives Will Produce Better Health Outcomes and Lower Costs

Modern Healthcare

9/11 Museum: Tragedy Turns the Mundane into Memorial

Inside Target’s Tech Funhouse and Search for Its Next Billion-Dollar Business

Picture Frames

The New York Times

A First Look at the Freedom Tower’s One World Observatory

The Wall Street Journal

Jake Barton at WIRED 2012

Jake Barton at WIRED By Design

Brookfield’s $250 Million Development Rocks Downtown

The New York Post

The Near-Impossible Challenge of Designing the 9/11 Museum

David Pogue at the 9/11 Memorial Museum

New Tech Museum Interactive Exhibit Educates People with Wearable Sensors

Silicon Valley Business Journal

New ‘Body Metrics’ exhibit opens at The Tech — it’s all about you

The San Jose Mercury News

An Ingenious Museum Design That Turns Visitors Into Creators

Stones and Bones

Of Pixels and Paintings: Gallery One, ArtLens and the Role of Technology in Museums

The Huffington post

New York Hall of Science Debuts Noticing Tools Apps

David Isay Wins 2015 TED Prize for StoryCorps, an Oral History Project

The New York Times

Coming Into Its Own: The Rejuvenated Brookfield Place

The Wall Street Journal

The 9/11 Story Told at Bedrock, Powerful as a Punch to the Gut

The New York Times