MIT Museum’s Window Into the Institute
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The new MIT Museum offers a glimpse into research and other aspects of MIT's history. Join us for this tour to learn how the engagement with museum staff informed a new organization that dispenses with traditional front- and back-of-house delineations. Plus, discover how coordination with all building systems produced a cohesive result; how the team addressed technical design issues like vapor barriers on the exterior envelope; and how the museum offers new ways of thinking about transparency and openness in cultural institutions, especially science and tech museums.
The new MIT Museum offers a glimpse into research and other aspects of MIT's history. Join us for this tour to learn how the engagement with museum staff informed a new organization that dispenses with traditional front- and back-of-house delineations. Plus, discover how coordination with all building systems produced a cohesive result; how the team addressed technical design issues like vapor barriers on the exterior envelope; and how the museum offers new ways of thinking about transparency and openness in cultural institutions, especially science and tech museums.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to better engage stakeholders across departments and functions to gather more accurate feedback throughout the design process.
- Learn how to identify and design for the unique program needs of science and tech museums.
- Consider how to apply new ways of thinking about the relationships between front- and back-of-house organization and how to integrate programs in a way that offers cross-departmental benefits.
- Find out how to apply lessons learned from designing a "teaching museum" into your cultural and academic projects.
- Eric Höweler
Principal and Co-founder - Höweler + Yoon - Jon Alvarez