We’re excited to announce the design challengers participating in this summer’s Innovation Lab! The specifics of each challenge will be revealed during the program but here’s a sneak peek at who will be participating each week with a few more updates to come.
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MediaLab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The MediaLab is a small team within the Creative Development Group in the Digital Media Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Our job, broadly speaking, is to explore the impact that technology can have on the museum experience. More specifically, we do this by working with New York’s creative technology community, to develop prototypes […]
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MOFAD
The Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is a nonprofit that is launching the world’s first large-scale food museum with exhibits you can eat. As the organization works toward its goal of opening a brick-and-mortar museum in New York City, it is launching a series of exhibits and programs to generate excitement for the project. […]
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The Climate Museum
The Climate Museum’s mission is to provide a lasting space for imagining a better future together, to serve as a global hub for optimistic climate awareness and initiative, and to put climate at the heart of our culture, ethics, and public life. The museum, which is currently in its start-up phase, will be located in […]
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Freshkills Park
At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. The transformation of what was formerly the world’s largest landfill into a productive and beautiful cultural destination makes the park a symbol of renewal and an expression of how our society can restore balance to its […]
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Robert Krulwich & Radiolab
Robert Krulwich is co-host of Radiolab, WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning program about ‘big ideas’ now one of public radio’s most popular shows. It is carried on more than 500 radio stations and its podcasts are downloaded over 5 million times each month. He is also the author of the “Curiously Krulwich” blog, featured on National Geographic, […]
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NYPL
Conceptualize an interactive exhibition that engages visitors in voting on displayed and digitized items to be included in another, larger, forthcoming exhibition.
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Mind’s eye
“Visual blind,” “whole-body seeing,” “the mind’s eye” – these are terminologies utilized by people with sight loss to describe how they see. The diverse experiences of sight loss provide fertile ground for creatively generating access and understanding difference in ability.
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Moma
Launched in 2013, Audio+ features audio commentaries for selected artworks. How would you evolve the sound and experience design of this fairly conventional audio tour? We want to be more artist-led and responsive to different audiences.
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