ECT Brownbag: Barry Joseph
The Revolution has Been Digitized: A Toolkit for the Future of Museums
Thursday, March 11, 10:00 – 11:00am EST
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99255682170
At a time when museums around the world are threatened like never before, all eyes are looking to the power and potential of digital learning. At the same time museums are struggling to be more relevant to their communities while broadening their reach of visitors served.
Barry is currently writing a book that takes his readers behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovated visitor digital engagement through a public-facing iterative design process while highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the world. Based on the bleeding-edge work he was fortunate enough to lead, readers of the book will learn how to apply his Five Tools of Digital Design and take inspiration from rich and engaging case studies that span both subject matter (like constellations, microbial life, and dinosaur fossils) and digital engagement (through tools like mobile apps, augmented reality, and telepresence robots).
This Brown Bag will present materials in development for one of the book’s feature case studies, focused on digital design in cultural halls. Together we will look at two projects designed for the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians (with support by ETC interns) and explore how together we applied these Five Tools of Digital Design.
The first project is the Video Bridge: A live video interaction between visitors to the Hall of North American Indians and peoples within the communities represented in the Hall.The second is Dreams of the Haida Child:A family activity guide featuring augmented reality that provided context for the Hall of North American Indians. You can learn more in advance about either project by searching for either project at his blog Mooshme.org.
About the speaker
Barry Joseph is founder of Barry Joseph Consulting, a driving force at both the strategic and the tactical level in digital engagement, youth development and digital learning (BarryJosephConsulting.com). For a dozen years, at Global Kids (a NYC-based after school organization) then for six years at the American Museum of Natural History, Barry oversaw the strategy, design, and implementation of a slate of over 100 youth courses that applied the latest technology to engage youth to develop their skills and passions through youth media productions and design practices. He has also worked for over a decade with museums to innovate visitor-facing experiences through iterative design, with a particular focus on prototyping and evaluating cutting-edge visitor-facing experiences. Most recently, as VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA, he used tools of user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX) to make complexity accessible, supporting the development of a seamless digital customer experience that increased retention and drove new membership. Barry has taught thousands of NYC youth and facilitated over a thousand hours of youth programming, including as troop leader of his daughter’s Girl Scout Troop. His first book, Seltzertopia, came out in 2018, and he often writes about digital engagement on his blog Mooshme.org. Much of his work in the past decade could not have been possible without the talent, creativity, and hard work of graduate student interns from ETC, to whom he is ever grateful. @mmmooshme