Turning in relentless optimism
September 2009, Santa Cruz: I was working on a database design. I hit a snag. I looked it up on the internet. One of the answers was found on a page with lots of advertisements. One of those advertisements was for ASTC 2009 in Fort Worth, TX. The Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC, pronounced az*tek) was an epiphany at that moment. I booked a flight that day and have attended every year since … er, except 2010 in Hawaii.
I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel session recently entitled “Learning from Interactives that Suck” at the 2013 ASTC conference in Albuquerque, NM. I felt quite humbled to be onstage with veteran exhibit managers and designers in a frank discussion of the challenges of exhibit design. It’s a stretch to say I design […]