Local Projects Presentation

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LOCAL

PROJECTSLocal Projects designs experiences that create conversations.


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hello!


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PROJ E CT S

As a media-design firm based in New York, it uses information design, mediaproduction, interactivity, and social media to both solicit and tell stories.


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PROJ E CT S

As a media-design firm based in New York, it uses information design, mediaproduction, interactivity, and social media to both solicit and tell stories.


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J A K E

BA RT ON

Sitting in the center of this photograph is the founder and principle if Local Projects,Jake Barton. This project you just watched explains a lot about what they do. The nameLocal Projects was inspired by a quote from Speaker of the House, Tip ONeill, statingthat all politics is local. For Local Projects...


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All design is local.VI S I ON

All design is local.


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MEMORY MAPS

Telling stories to strangers is not something that most people seek to do. But findingthese stories, encouraging them from people in unlikely scenarios, and making theexperience enjoyable, is exactly what Local Projects aims to do.


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ME MORY

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Memory Maps was created for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival. It was one of LocalProjects first projects.


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ME MORY

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During this festival they created a structure that looked like a subway car and inside ofit they printed large maps of the city where people could write their stories on sheets ofvellum and...


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ME MORY

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pin them to specific locations.


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ME MORY

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Together it became a new version of the citycreated through memories layeredtogether with each handwritten sheet mixing with the other.


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ME MORY

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One result of this project that wasnt planned for was the face to face sharing of storiesbetween visitors through interacting with the project.


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STORY CORPS

Story Corps is a National Oral History Project that explores this exchanging of storiesthrough a means of verbal communication. The idea is simple...


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you go into a soundproof booth and conduct a 45 minute interview with a...


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loved one or neighbor. When you finish, you leave with a CD of the experience and aanother copy goes into the Library of Congress.


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Clips from these interviews are then played on the radio weekly. Its power comes fromcapturing these intimate conversations that are often filled with questions that havenever been asked before. Heres one example of the project...


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ISSUES FORUM

While Local Projects focuses heavily on stories. Theyre also interested in collectingopinions that will create a medium for a dialogue.


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I S S UE S

F ORUM

The Contemporary Issues Forum created for the National Museum of American JewishHistory in Philadelphia allows visitors to reflect on controversial questions.


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I S S UE S

F ORUM

Visitors can articulate their point of view by writing it out and vote by scanning in theircard which will then give them an instant poll on where the community stands.

When they place their card on the actual wall it will reveal a sequence of other visitorswho have also responded. Through the process they hoped to make these controversial

issue more human.


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PROJ E CT S

For me, Ive always been interested design for good and usually what comes to mindwith these sorts of projects are grassroots, low-tech, and low funded types of projects.But at the same time Im also very interested in interactive design, but a lot of timeswhen you tell people this they immediately put you in this box of websites, and mobileapp design, which is not totally not the case for me.


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PROJ E CT S

For me, Ive always been interested design for good and usually what comes to mindwith these sorts of projects are grassroots, low-tech, and low funded types of projects.But at the same time Im also very interested in interactive design, but a lot of timeswhen you tell people this they immediately put you in this box of websites, and mobileapp design, which is not totally not the case for me.


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LOCAL

PROJECTSWhat I like about Local Projects is that really utilizes the afordances of technology, buttheyre work definitely goes beyond that, its an experience, its about storytelling andreally, Jake Barton says it best...


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