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This is Design Matters with

Dembe Milman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with Jake Barton about how we became a media designer

and about how collaborative storytelling can work for museums.

It's not a technique. It is a commitment when you're gathering that many stories, when you're opening

up yourself as a museum as a platform. And it doesn't just create an

amazing exhibit experience. It literally changes the institution. Here's Debbie Mill.

Museums in public spaces work hard to get people inside their doors. Designer Jake Barton takes it to the next level and draws people further into the space they're already in.

Barton is the founder and principal of local projects, a design firm that uses technology

to connect people to their surroundings and to each other.

Local projects uses smartphones and interactive screens to peel back the layers of a site,

and they also add new layers by asking visitors to share

their opinions and stories and memories. Barton made his name through his

designs for StoryCorps, the Oral History Project.

More recently, he designed the algorithm arranging the names for the September 11th Memorial.

Jake Barton, welcome to Design Matters.

Thanks so much for having me.

So Jake, I understand that you're a native New Yorker.

I am indeed.

Born and bred.

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