Experience Design Futures
About this Event
Immersive technology, such as virtual and augmented reality, plays an increasingly important role in experience design. Museums and exhibit designers are pointing to what those futures might be when applied in public space. A panel discussion between Brendan McGetrick of the Museum of the Future, Jake Barton from Local Projects, and Andrew Witt, co-director of the GSD’s Master in Design Engineering program, will share the questions that drive their design practices and blend creative technology and physical space.
Speakers
Brendan McGetrick is the creative director of the Museum of the Future in Dubai, where he oversees the storytelling and design elements of all content, exhibitions, and the visitor experience. Previously, he was the founding director of Global Grad Show, an annual exhibition of graduate projects from the world’s leading design and technology schools. In 2014, he curated Fair Enough in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. As a writer, designer, and curator, McGetrick’s work has appeared in publications in over forty countries, including the New York Times, Wired, The Financial Times, Art Review, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and Vogue Nippon.
Jake Barton is the Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm that creates groundbreaking museums and public spaces. Credits include landmarks like the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the Legacy Museum, Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center, The Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Language Arts, and StoryCorps and Planet Word. Local Projects has won major awards including the National Design Award and Cannes Lions. Currently, the firm is developing museums for The United Nations, Motown, The Courage Museum and The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Barton also designed sets and projections for McNeal, the Lincoln Center play starring Robert Downey Jr. Currently, he is launching an initiative to develop touring immersive entertainment experiences to catalyze action around the climate crisis, earning him an Emerson Collective Climate Fellowship.
Andrew Witt is an associate professor in practice of architecture at the GSD and co-founder of Certain Measures. Andrew’s teaching and research focus on the relationship of geometry and machines to perception, design, assembly, and culture. Trained as both an architect and mathematician, he is the co-founder (with Tobias Nolte) of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based design futures and technology incubator. He has experience with large-scale construction automation, fabrication machine development, and commercial software development, including web-based 3D concurrent design systems, urban simulation of autonomous mobility systems, and history of technology and science in design.
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