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 →
A group of more than two dozen professionals met in October 2018 at the first-ever museum summit with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Entitled Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion... read more →
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 →
From Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History One current museum trend actually has nothing to do with a museum- or the walls of a museum at least. More and... read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →