Craft
Hands-on technique and the small decisions that separate careful work from convenient work. Craft shows up less in dramatic flourishes than in the restraint to do the unglamorous part properly.
Designing for a wheelchair quietly made the whole building better
Curb cuts were built for wheelchairs and ended up serving strollers, delivery carts, and rolling luggage far more often. Accessible design keeps producing this pattern, almost by accident.
The curator’s new job is partly a director’s job
As exhibits lean on sound, light, and pacing, curatorial work is starting to overlap with film and theater direction more than archival scholarship.
Adaptive reuse turns an old building’s constraints into its best feature
The column grid of a former factory or the low ceilings of a converted warehouse look like limitations, until they become the thing that makes the new space feel like nowhere else.
Museums are embracing new media for storytelling
Projection, sound design, and interactive displays are changing what a museum visit feels like. A look at what is actually being gained and lost.
Designing for a wheelchair quietly made the whole building better
Curb cuts were built for wheelchairs and ended up serving strollers, delivery carts, and rolling luggage far more often. Accessible design keeps producing this pattern, almost by accident.
Museums are embracing new media for storytelling
Projection, sound design, and interactive displays are changing what a museum visit feels like. A look at what is actually being gained and lost.