The past two weeks I spent traveling to three different archives as both a casual and scholarly researcher. Below is a list of key insights I’ve uncovered while interacting with people, spaces/environments, and institutions that at these visited archives. I came up with a list of about 40 at first, but narrowed it down to my favorites which all have a relative thread.
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Last week I spent a few days at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. The GEH is an internationally renown museum of photography and film. They also house huge preservation and archival collection efforts all under the same roof. Read the rest of this entry »
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has a Pacific Northwest & Alaska Regional location just outside of downtown Seattle, WA.
To see a gallery of my trip and research experience at NARA click here.
Next week I will be conducting a human centered design research project at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Today I came across the powerdome®VELVET, a new projector from Carl Zeiss. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in terms of technology but how weirdly similar in form these two products are.
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On Friday I will begin my two week research trip to Seattle, WA and Rochester, NY. This coming Friday I am planning on starting at NARA’s Pacific Northwest and Alaska regional location, just north of Seattle. In the afternoon I’ll be stopping by the University of Washington’s Archives.
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Tonight I presented my poster at the SAA annual meeting. I am a designer, and not an archivist, so feeling like quite an outsider I dived in and got to speak with a variety or archiving industry professionals including archivists, instructors, students, curators, and vendors.
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Today I attended a few sessions:
Who/What/Why/How Archival R/Evolution
Finding Aids 2.0
Want to Thrive? Listen To Users
Graduate Student presentations
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This is part of the mission of the Internet Archive, a group located in San Francisco’s historical Presidio area that took upon themselves the huge task of archiving the internet. Today, I had the chance to attend a tour of their facilities and was given an overview of their mission, practice, and current projects followed by a Q&A session.
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Vogelsang Peak = 11,493 feet elevation.
Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, Yosemite, CA, USA.
After leaving around 9am, a group of three new friends and I left our basecamp at Vogelsang HSC and headed for the peak. Vogelsang’s peak tops out at close to 11,500′—the highest I’ve ever stood. Before today I’ve driven to a peak of about 8400′ and alpine meadows at 9500′. Our camp was at 10,180′ elevation. Quite an odd place to find an archive right?…
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Talk about the perfectly designed summer of my life—this was it. This summer I spent 14 weeks working as an experience and interaction designer, conceptualizing and rapidly prototyping for T-Mobile at their Creation Center (!cc). Here I not only found a fantastic company to work for, new friends, and exciting projects, but I found what type of designer I want to be.
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