E3, Pt2: Designing for Compassion with Amanda White, Director of Content at Local Projects

MuseumX: Designing Experiences for Good

PART 2: What’s the formula to spark and then activate compassion? As you’ll learn in this episode - there is one! I had the pleasure of interviewing Amanda White, Director of Content for Local Projects in NYC.

Amanda is a leader in experience design on a global stage - with 17 years' experience in leading content development for design. She leads teams to transform concepts into impactful experiences for user engagement - with a specialty in strategic messaging and storytelling.

In our two-part episode, we discuss how to connect with visitors’ compassion, how compassion might be transformed into action, and how Amanda is inspired to tell the stories that create deep connections with audiences.

Local Projects LinkedIn page

Local Projects website

Amanda White LinkedIn page

Links to other resources discussed in episode

Attention Restoration Theory and Study

Terra, Sustainability Expo 2020, Dubai - example of immersion and a more linear relationship between ‘feel’ and ‘think’

Greenwood Rising in Tulsa - example of integrating ‘feel’, ‘think’ and ‘do’ in proximal relationship

Power of Science @ Frost Museum of Science, Miami - Example of ‘feel’ and ‘think’ in a proximal relationship

Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney Australia form making plays a big role

Seattle Aquarium

Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville FL - Experimenting with integrating opportunities for people to get involved with their community much more closely with other parts of content and exhibits. Ex of ‘Feel’, ‘Think’, and ‘Do’, in proximal relationship.

Jordan Museum in Amman

Sleep No More - Immersive Theater

Tribeca Film VR Arcade

Tenement Museum

Change the Museum instagram

MuseumNext blog

Inclusive Museum blog

Science journal

Nature journal

Inside Climate News journal

Link to Stef’s episode sketch / mind map / data viz (aka Link to see the inside of my brain)

Stef’s notes on Feel-Think-Do formula

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