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Article — Informal Learning Review: Landing Nearer to Where We Stood

Studio Tectonic principle Seth Frankel recently published an essay in Informal Learning Review about the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on the world of museums. [The pandemic has] magnified what we already... read more →
  • November 16, 2021
  • Studio Tectonic
  • Empathy, Exhibits, Interactivity, Museum, Process, Studio Tectonic News
Museums Respond to Early Days of COVID-19

Museumers Respond to Early Days of COVID-19

The good folks at Informal Learning Review published a special issue. It focuses on museum people's thoughts, ideas, and responses to COVID-19. More than forty short articles speak to the... read more →
  • April 22, 2020
  • Seth Frankel
  • Process

Traditional Rendering Time-lapse

While Studio Tectonic uses a blend of all-digital techniques for creating renderings of our concepts, we still are fans of hand renderings. This time-lapse shows the finishing touches on a... read more →
  • September 29, 2016
  • Seth Frankel
  • Design, Exhibits, Graphics, Museum, Process, Techniques, Technology
Museum Board as Consultants

Museum Board as Consultants (What Outside Experts Bring)

On a recent AAM group chat site on LinkedIn, a posting presented a question about using board members instead of hired consultants. While this was mostly a discussion about making... read more →
  • December 11, 2012
  • Seth Frankel
  • Education, Process

Book Release — Designing for Empathy

As part of the newly released book Designing for Empathy, Perspectives on the Museum Experience, Studio Tectonic’s principal, Seth Frankel, provided a chapter on the role of proximity. Edited by... read more →
  • June 7, 2019
  • Seth Frankel
  • Empathy, Process, Studio Tectonic News

Tips and Thoughts for Museums in a COVID World

Studio Tectonic has compiled a list of dozens of ways museums, zoos, and other institutions can react to our changing world. We think about broad-ranging topics like technology, staff, design,... read more →
  • July 7, 2020
  • Seth Frankel
  • Education, Evaluation, Interactivity, Materials, Museum, Process, Technology
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Upcoming Book — Fostering Empathy Through Museums

Seth Frankel, Studio Tectonic's principal, is a contributing author to a new professional book entitled Fostering Empathy Through Museums. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, the book release is scheduled for Spring, 2016,... read more →
  • December 1, 2015
  • Seth Frankel
  • Design, Education, Empathy, Exhibits, Museum, Process, Studio Tectonic News, Techniques, Uncategorized

Upcoming Book Release, 2019 — Designing for Empathy

Designing for Empathy has recently been submitted for publication (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). It is a follow up to Fostering Empathy through Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, edited by Elif Gokcigdem. Studio... read more →
  • December 5, 2018
  • Seth Frankel
  • Design, Empathy, Museum, Process, Studio Tectonic News

Tips on Use of a Multiple Languages in Exhibits

Wide ranging cultural institutions often wrestle with when and how to use multiple languages in their exhibitions. As well they should. Any institution, except for those in the most homogenous areas, need... read more →
  • January 28, 2015
  • Seth Frankel
  • Design, Education, Exhibits, Graphics, Museum, Process, Techniques

Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls — Audio Blog from Museum Archipelago

Ian Elsner, podcaster at Museum Archipelago, interviewed Bill Bradberry, the board chairman and president of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Bill introduces the new Center, opening in May,... read more →
  • February 20, 2018
  • Seth Frankel
  • Design, Education, Exhibits, Higher Education, Museum, Process, Sites of Conscience, Techniques
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