Posts by Dan Marwit

In her guest post, Dalit Shalom describes her process in discovering the life of Mr. Walter Phelps Warren, dispersed across our collections, and reassembling it in an exhibition display equipped with a virtual reality experience. Dalit is a designer and creative technologist living in New York City, and a Masters candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program.

Before you dive into that bowl of chips this Sunday, take a moment to appreciate Walter Camp, the man who gave you football. This guy, the fit, mutton-chopped “Father of American Football,” literally wrote the rules.

Over the last year, NYPL has been experimenting with ways to think not outside the exhibition box, but in connection with it.

NYPL has digitized hundreds of thousands of objects and artifacts. How can we better integrate these into exhibitions and other experiences in physical spaces? On July 15 – 17, 2015, we had the fantastic opportunity to ask that question of participants in the first ever ITP Innovation Lab.