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Visitor Experience Research and Development from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

The finished Art Clock displayed on a horizontal tablet sitting on a light wood shelf with books to the right and a Christmas cactus to the left. The Art Clock shows a close cropped etching of a medieval figure with the minute hand pointed to their chin (at 30 past the hour) and the hour hand a 1pm, corresponding to the angle of the figure’s eyes.

Design Retrospective: Art Clock

This article is part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes commissioned by Cooper…

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

In the center of the image is a medium-skin toned hand holding a cell phone. The cell phone displays two butterflies superimposed against the flower garden in the background of the image. One of the butterflies is bright blue with a slight iridescent quality, and the smaller one, a Monarch, contains various shades of orange and yellow with black veining on the wings.

Design Retrospective: ButtARfly

This article was written as part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes commissioned by…

A moonscape against a black sky with the sun and earth in the upper left and right of the image. In the foreground are six astronauts in white spacesuits, who are in various poses, mostly standing, one sitting. One of the six is climbing down from the Apollo 11 moon lander onto the moon surface. The astronauts names, “Neil, Chloe, Li, Jayden, Maria, and Ed” float above their heads.

Design Retrospective: ScienceVR Treasure Hunt

This article is part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes…

Design Retrospective: Writing with Open Access

This article is the first in a series of Design Retrospectives on the…

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

Seven very different looking images representing prototypes using Smithsonian Open Access collections in different ways, including: image on a clock face, butterflies from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, an augmented reality room furnished with objects from La Belle Epoque, woolly mammoth skeleton, a 3D rendering of a King’s head from the Kingdom of Benin, text and associated images set up like a virtual gallery, Apollo 11 mission lander in a “virtual moon museum”

The Potential of Creative Commissioning: Learning from Activating Smithsonian Open Access

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

Recapping the view from inside — Pandemic as Portal: Exploring the in-between

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

Dancing in the midst of the many hanging bulbs that make up “Curiosity Cloud” installation at Cooper Hewitt Nature Triennial

Designing for Now: The Implications of “Going Online”

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