Tue
Mar
31
12 pm - 1 pm
ET
Tuesday, March 31, 12-1 PM
370 Jay Street, 540
Join us for How to Play the Sondheim Way: A Parlor Game Workshop, a lecture/workshop designed for participants to discover how the playful approach to parlor games of the famed lyricist/composer Stephen Sondheim can inspire our own design practices. Based on the new book Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Games and Puzzles of the Broadway Legend, the gathering will open with an exploration of how Sondheim designed puzzles (like treasure hunts and cryptic crosswords) to create moments of clarity and designed games (like parlor and board games) to create moments of connection. Participants will then experience and analyze Sondheim-style parlor games, identifying underlying design values like playfulness, generosity, and mentorship.
About the speaker
Barry Joseph, based in New York City, has 25+ years expertise in digital engagement in the non-profit sector, innovating solutions for learning in a digital age. Over 15 of those years were spent working with museums, such as The Field Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most notably, Joseph spent six years at the American Museum of Natural History developing and overseeing a digital learning strategy for the Education Department and leading evaluation and assessment within an internal group prototyping digital engagement with visitors within the permanent halls. Museum-related work in the past year includes support for online learning tools offered by the Natural History Museum of Utah, development of the new Brooklyn Seltzer Museum and Factory Tour, and strategic planning for a new museum dedicated to the Borscht Belt resorts. Learn more at his website or on his blog.
NYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Please submit your request for accommodations for events and services at least two weeks before the date of your accommodation need. Although we can't guarantee accommodation requests received less than two weeks before the event, you should still contact us and we will do our best to meet your accommodation need. Please email
drz220@nyu.edu for assistance.
