Looking to the Past to Design the Future

A talk on Local Project's work that I gave at The Made in NY Media Center's event Designing Alternative Futures in partnership with The Conference.

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1. Looking to the Past
   to Design the Future
   JOHN RYAN, LOCAL PROJECTS
   @johndryan, @LocalProjects
   

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4. Eisenhower E-Memorial 4
   

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9. TOOLS
   CHAPTER I
   

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11. The most significant step that
    ever was taken in human history,
    the thing that turns animal into
    man was making tools…
    — Louis Leakey, Paleontologist
    

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13. Cooper Hewitt
    National Design Museum
    TOOL-MAKING
    

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24. — Brett Victor
    

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25. A tool addresses human needs
    by amplifying human capabilities.
    — Brett Victor, Designer
    

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26. — Brett Victor
    

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27. The goal was to make the
    technology invisible.
    — John Lasseter, Pixar
    

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29. STORIES
    CHAPTER II
    

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31. The Universe is made of stories,
    not of atoms.
    — Muriel Rukeyser, Poet
    

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33. One World Observatory
    STORY-TELLING
    

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36. MYTHS
    CHAPTER III
    

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40. CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART Gallery One 2.0
    

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41. CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART Gallery One 2.0
    

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42. Target Open House
    MYTH-MAKING
    

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43. The Internet of Things
    will be the largest device
    market in the world.
    The Internet of Things
    will be the largest device market in the world.
    

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47. NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER 47
    TARGET
    

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48. MIRRORS
    CHAPTER IV
    

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52. Cleveland Museum of Art
    MIRRORS & LENSES
    

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59. PLAY
    CHAPTER V
    

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61. I hear and I forget.
    I see and I remember.
    I do and I understand.
    — Confucius
    

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64. “That is the way to learn the
    most, that when you are
    doing something with such
    enjoyment that you don’t
    notice that the time passes.”
    — Einstein
    

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65. New York
    Hall of Science
    PLAY & DISCOVERY
    

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68. Make it as real as possible,
    as fast as possible.
    — Amit Pitaru, FiftyThree
    

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74. A man of genius makes no mistakes.
    His errors are volitional and are the
    portals to discovery.
    — James Joyce
    

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80. I. TOOLS
    II. STORIES
    III. MYTHS
    IV. MIRRORS
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81. Thank You
    @johndryan, @localprojects
    john@localprojects.com
    localprojects.com
    

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