Here we have collected resources and documentation with the aim of creating an online repository about the Cooper Hewitt’s digital projects.

MW Papers and Resources

• Strategies against architecture: interactive media and transformative technology at Cooper Hewitt – Sebastian Chan and Aaron Cope, MW2015: Museums and the Web 2015. Published April 6, 2015
• Reconsidering searching and browsing on the Cooper Hewitt’s Collections website – Sam Brenner, MW2015: Museums and the Web 2015. Published February 1, 2015
• Best of the Web Nominee, Museums and the Web 2015: The New Cooper Hewitt – an interactive museum with integrated online presence built on an API
• Best of the Web honorable mention, Museums and the Web 2015: The Digital Pen

Redesign

• The Cooper Hewitt’s transformation 
  2011 description of the Cooper Hewitt’s redesign.
• Local Projects – Promo video
  Promo video on the Cooper Hewitt’s design of interactive experiences by Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces.

The Pen

• How to Video – Cooper Hewitt, March, 11 2015
  A promo video showing how to use The Pen when you next visit the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Animation: Aaron Kemnitzer
• Designing the Pen – Cooper Hewitt
  Description of the Pen.
• From concept to video prototype: the early form of the Pen – March 31, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Seb Chan
  The design process for the Pen explained.
• Exporting your visits – May 20, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, asc
• Happy Staff = Happy visitors – May 21, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Lab, Katie Shelly
  On improving the registration station where a new Pen is paired with a new ticket.
• Label Writer: Connecting NFC tags to collection objects – June 11, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Sam Brenner
  How objects labels are connected to NFC tags.
• 100 days – June 16, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Seb Chan
  Findings from the first 100 days the Pen started being distributed to visitors.
• When the optimal interface is paper: improving visitor information – June 23, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Katie Shelly
  Marketing and design of the postcard explaining how to use the Pen.
• 5 months with the Pen: data, data, data – August 13, 2015 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Seb Chan
  Learnings from the first 5 months of use of the Pen

Immersion Room

• What it is
  
• Immerison Room on Instagram
  Instagram pictures showing how visitors use the Immersion Room.

API

• The API at the center of the museum – November 7, 2014 – Cooper Hewitt Labs, Seb Chan
  How Cooper Hewitt used the API to underpin all its interactive experiences, both online and in the galleries.

Website

• A colophon for bias
• How re-opening the museum enhanced our online collection: new views, new API methods
• Tag Writer App

Ticketing

• Ticketing website
• Redesigning Post-Purchase Touchpoints

Press

• Meyer, R., 2015, “The Museum of the Future is Here” (Article)
• Pogrebin, R, 2007 “Cooper-Hewitt Is Determined to Expand, Despite a Host of Critics”, New York Times, April 28 2007 (Article)
• Rhodes, M. 2014 “An Innovative Museum That Lets You Play the Role of a Designer”, Wired, December 11 2014 (Article)
• Lange, A. 2014 “The New Cooper Hewitt”, The New Yorker, December 12, 2014 (Article)
• The Verge, 2015, “The Smithsonian’s design museum goes high tech” (Video)
• “Funkorama” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), 2015 Tech Times T-Lounge (Video)
• NBC, 2014 “Grand Opening of the Redesigned Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum”. Cara McCarty, curatorial director at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, sits down with Roseanne Colletti to discuss the grand opening of the museum after its redesign. (Video)

Presentations