Comments for Caroline Brown

Comment on Toy Design Workshop: Mood Board by Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:16:49 +0000

Notes from class
What kinds of things do you need to connect? Planes, 2d, stones, etc.
Hamilton Fullish
Nash
Richard Long
Tree sculptors– long term structures built by influencing growing
Growing walls
Russian Constructivist connections
Aesthetic– mechanical or bio?
Pollard

Comment on Thesis: Preliminary Drawings by jorge

jorge — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:55:37 +0000

i love this idea. congratulations.

Comment on Thesis: Mood Board by Ari J

Ari J — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:53:46 +0000

Love it! Gotta get on mine…

Comment on Thesis: Week 1 by Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:06:54 +0000

A few interesting links on bioluminescence:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bioluminescent-metropolis.html

http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/

http://explorations.ucsd.edu/biolum/index.html

http://www.sdnhm.org/exhibits/glow/index.html

Comment on Cabinets Week 8: Museum Design Manifesto by nancy

nancy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:08:21 +0000

Awesome! This is a great manifesto…an exhaustive list. When you open your exhibit design office, I’d make some groupings: visitor experience, content design, evaluation etc. Can you imagine how great it would be to go to an exhibit/museum where the institution really committed to these things. But here’s the hard part: you ‘ve set up a really tough measuring stick. It’s easy-ish to say transform or transport the visitor if only for a moment. But how do you do that? Is there a central exhibit that will do that or will there be a variety for different visitors? Each one of your points would be an evaluation standard that you’d have to design to or hire to (like hiring nice security guards).
I’m glad to see how much you’ve learned and thought about.

Comment on Cabinets Week 4: Museum of Natural History by nancy

nancy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:08:45 +0000

Caroline.. This is a superb review. I like that you really went into the emotional aspect of your first visit…and then the change when you went behind the scenes. It’s kind of what I went through when I went to work there…how musty/dusty it all felt in the public places and the passion behind the scenes. At some point you might want to do a closer look at what they were trying to do with the redo of Ocean Life and Planet Earth….how would you update a place like this? This is kind of rhetorical except that I expect it to show up in some form in your manifesto. I know you are a very deep thinker…and I like to read your mulling process.
Here’s the best part…
Meeting a real person who is absolutely passionate about their work is
far more powerful and effective in conveying information than almost
any sort of exhibit, no matter how interactive it is.

Comment on Cabinets Week 5: New York Hall of Science by nancy

nancy — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:10:56 +0000

Good review and I wonder the same thing. I am totally into the place (or places like it) for about 20 minutes, and I think I am learning something but then a kind of collective A.D.D. hits me and I kind of stagger from one thing to the next like a zombie. I see nothing wrong with a playground, mind you, or cool lab experiments…there’s just something about the overload. I feel that way about all the big museums. The Met there’s a point where my eyes can’t take in any more. And the NYHS the noise and the variety get to me. But then again, who would want to go allllll the way out there and see one exhibit. Would be kind of cool to imagine a museum with episodes, like TV. This week: amps, next week: the water cycle…
I am so interested to see what you might do for your own Cabinet.

Comment on Artists’ Materials via the Brooklyn Museum API by Design for interactive and social media » Museum Links

Design for interactive and social media » Museum Links — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:21:37 +0000

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Comment on Cabinets Week 3: MJH, NMAI, & Eldridge St. by nancy

nancy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:45:51 +0000

Super reviews!! You bring up a lot of provocative points in the MJH review. Many Jews are adamant that the Holocaust be set apart and no one else can even own the term. I’m interested in your feeling of the disjunction between floors…and how you can use the travel time as contemplation. The Garden of Stones is like Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial…it’s a Jewish tradition to lay stones on a gravestone when you visit, as a remembrance…so that seems like it’s for community memory.
oh,the poor NMAI…it was such a good idea…that the exhibits be put together from the different tribes. I think what happened is that the Smithsonian got bored with the NY museum when they went for the big one in DC…as if this one were the sketchbook for that. And the customs house is a weird place for it…albeit a kind of cool museum
I haven’t been to the Eldridge St Museum…sounds a lot like the Tenement Museum. …which is kind of like a mini Williamsburg(VA)..where you are in the place and you can imagine what life was like then. It’s almost as if, sometimes, that it’s better for a place to be 100% one way or the other. When you are being g uided, and the guides are good, you can give yourself over completely. It wouldn’t be the same to walk through on your own.

Comment on Cabinets Week 2: Brooklyn Botanic Garden by nancy

nancy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:35:12 +0000

Nice review…extending some of your comments…knowing you I would imagine that you like the idea of a special place being plopped down in the middle of and ordinary place. What does that do for a neighborhood? The Highline just opened in my neighborhood and it’s hard to say why exactly it is so magical. But it is, and it makes the nasty ole meat market as lovely as an Italian town. Does something like the BBG, maybe, make Brooklyn feel more like a village?

I like your connection to Grover:” It was as if by building a wall around a certain space we had been given permission to look very, very closely, in a way that is usually seen as strange when done outside that wall”

Remind me if I forget to talk about the entrance ways. juri and ruxy also talked about that.