Rachel Eve Ginsberg – Medium

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

After the Interaction Lab

After three and a half exciting, fascinating, complex years full of all kinds of learning, growth, and transformation, I’m stepping away…

Aug 17, 2022

After the Interaction Lab

Aug 17, 2022

Published in
The Interaction Lab

Design Retrospective: Art Clock

This article is part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes commissioned by Cooper Hewitt’s Interaction Lab as part of…

Jun 2, 2022

The finished Art Clock displayed on a horizontal tablet sitting on a light wood shelf with books to the right and a Christmas cactus to the left. The Art Clock shows a close cropped etching of a medieval figure with the minute hand pointed to their chin (at 30 past the hour) and the hour hand a 1pm, corresponding to the angle of the figure’s eyes.

Jun 2, 2022

Published in
The Interaction Lab

Design Retrospective: ButtARfly

This article was written as part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes commissioned by Cooper Hewitt’s Interaction Lab for…

May 6, 2022

In the center of the image is a medium-skin toned hand holding a cell phone. The cell phone displays two butterflies superimposed against the flower garden in the background of the image. One of the butterflies is bright blue with a slight iridescent quality, and the smaller one, a Monarch, contains various shades of orange and yellow with black veining on the wings.

May 6, 2022

Published in
The Interaction Lab

The Potential of Creative Commissioning: Learning from Activating Smithsonian Open Access

Activating Smithsonian Open Access (ASOA) was born from a conversation that took place in June of 2020, while much of the world was locked…

Sep 30, 2021

Seven very different looking images representing prototypes using Smithsonian Open Access collections in different ways, including: image on a clock face, butterflies from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, an augmented reality room furnished with objects from La Belle Epoque, woolly mammoth skeleton, a 3D rendering of a King’s head from the Kingdom of Benin, text and associated images set up like a virtual gallery, Apollo 11 mission lander in a “virtual moon museum”

Sep 30, 2021

Published in
The Interaction Lab

Recapping the view from inside — Pandemic as Portal: Exploring the in-between

A note: This article was co-written by Angela Perrone, Katherine Miller, and Rachel Ginsberg before the events of the past few weeks, in a…

Jun 26, 2020

Recapping the view from inside — Pandemic as Portal: Exploring the in-between

Jun 26, 2020

Published in
The Interaction Lab

Designing for Now: The Implications of “Going Online”

When we first began to build out our plans for the Interaction Lab, we were already certain public programs would play a big role in our…

Apr 4, 2020

Dancing in the midst of the many hanging bulbs that make up “Curiosity Cloud” installation at Cooper Hewitt Nature Triennial

Apr 4, 2020

Experience design that combats the transactional.

Amanda Hess wrote a very smart piece in the NY Times that does a great job of teasing out many problematic aspects of the kinds of…

Sep 29, 2018

Experience design that combats the transactional.

Sep 29, 2018

Episode 4: Thoughts on Self Forgiveness

This is a topic that you’re going to hear a lot about from me. It’s been deeply on my mind for the past couple years, and lately so, in…

Sep 24, 2018

Episode 4: Thoughts on Self Forgiveness

Sep 24, 2018

Published in
Columbia DSL

Lifting the curtain on Sundance — Frankenstein AI: a monster made by many

Even 200 years after its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein still resonates. This brilliant story gave birth to science fiction as a…

Aug 13, 2018

Lifting the curtain on Sundance — Frankenstein AI: a monster made by many

Aug 13, 2018

David Bowie Is… thoughts on the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

Of course it makes sense that a definitive exhibition on David Bowie would have a significant sound design element to it, but somehow the…

Jul 27, 2018

David Bowie Is… thoughts on the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

Jul 27, 2018

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

Rachel Eve Ginsberg

thinker, dreamer, co-conspirator, independent strategist/experience designer, former Founding Director of Cooper Hewitt Interaction Lab

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams