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We have the pleasure of working on new and innovative projects all the time. Below is a brief description of some of our current projects.
Night Kitchen Interactive is excited to be creating the Star Spangled Banner website for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We’re incorporating storytelling and visitor participation to help capture the unfolding legacy of this symbol of American patriotism and identity and the national anthem it inspired.
Designed to present the flag as more than just a historical artifact, the new website will incorporate social media and interactives to encourage visitors to contribute their own creativity and unique points of view. The website is timed to launch with the re-opening of the Museum in November and will entice the public to visit this national treasure firsthand.
Night Kitchen Interactive is working with WHYY, Philadelphia’s local NPR-affiliate and producer of the documentary series Our World, to develop Our World Interactive, an educational website which will serve as a companion to short films highlighting career opportunities in science and technology.
As with the series which premiered in November 2007, the Our World Interactive website will cater to high-school students, featuring surprising entry points and unusual career paths in the sciences. Students will use this dynamic resource to explore science and technology careers that appeal to them. Working in concert with the series’ production team, Night Kitchen is creating a fast-paced, youth-oriented interactive website that will engage and hold the attention of today’s high school students.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), in collaboration with its exhibit design partners Kinecity, is creating an interactive Dialogtable installation. UMMA objects are to be displayed in a series of thematic narrative stories associated with objects in the collection, and reflecting a variety of perspectives.
Taking advantage of the playful, tactile yet highly visual format of the Dialogtable, Night Kitchen is creating a series of 50 narrative movies, focused on exploring a variety of themes. Each of these highly engaging, 1-2 minute stories will be connected on the table to images of objects. Visitors will be able to explore a variety of themes or jump off through associated objects in limitless directions. Through this exploration visitors will maintain a high level of control over their experience, balancing the multiplicity of narratives with their own personal approach.
Commemorating the Lincoln Bicentennial, the Rosenbach Museum and Library approached Night Kitchen to design a site that would bring to the public documents authored by Lincoln that reside in its collection, and allow site visitors to comment on them. This blog-based site is available in its first phase here: http://www.21stcenturyabe.org. In the second phase, Lincoln experts, contemporary artists and museum visitors will create responses to Lincoln’s documents, generating a conversation on the relevance and impact of these writings on our world today. [This phase is targeted for launch in February 2009.]
For the Independence Visitor’s Center Night Kitchen has recently begun a website commemorating the sixteenth president’s final visit to Pennsylvania, at the Great Central Fair in 1864 in Philadelphia. The site will tell the story of the historical fair, while also promoting visitation to the 2009 Lincoln’s Great Fair, to be held in Independence National Park. An events calendar, links to partner organizations, area maps and more will help both tourists and locals plan their visit to this three-day festival. [First Phase launch February 2008, Second Phase launch September 2008]
