Local Projects Talk

Please join us on Friday, November 20th, from 1 - 2 p.m. (EST) for a talk led by Jake Barton, Founder of Local Projects. You can RSVP here.

Talk description: In the wake of a disruptive year, how should designers rethink their relationships with the communities they serve? Jake Barton, Principal and Founder of Local Projects, isn't new to this question. His exhibit design studio has wrestled with this question while building exhibitions on some of the most difficult chapters of American history at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and The Legacy Museum, built in partnership with Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. Jake will share some of the successes and challenges of prior projects, and the design thinking that's shaped his work over two decades in the experience and exhibition design field, before taking your questions.

Jake Barton is Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience and exhibit design firm that creates groundbreaking experiences. Credits include landmark projects like the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the London Mithraeum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Local Projects has won every major award, including the National Design Awards and Cannes Lions, for work that focuses on civil rights (Legacy Museum & Greenwood Rising with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission), sustainability (Fashion for Good Experience), storytelling (StoryCorps & The New York Times) and education (Planet Word Museum of Language Arts, the first voice-activated museum of language). Jake's TED Talk has over one million views and he is on Fast Company Magazine’s list of top fifty designers.