Vizcaya
Work created at, for, or substantially shaped by Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
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A Modern Stoa: Can Cultural Institutions Make Room for Collective Adaptation?
A visit to the remains of Athens’ Painted Stoa becomes the starting point for a contemporary institutional question: where do cultural organizations create space for people to think together? Workflow Studio is presented as an experiment…
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Memories of a Lifetime: Helping Bring Queer Prom to Vizcaya as a member of the Safe Schools Board
A first-person account of helping Safe Schools South Florida bring Queer Prom to Vizcaya in May 2025, and the community celebration that followed.
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Yours Truly: An Interactive Archives Project
Yours Truly transformed thousands of pieces of Vizcaya correspondence into an interactive storytelling experience built around human-centered design. Rather than simply digitizing archival material, the project asked visitors to explore James Deering’s personality and choices through…
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Information Technology: The less-fun, crucially important foundation of digital heritage evolution
Taking responsibility for IT initially felt like a detour from digital strategy and audience engagement. Instead, rebuilding the institution’s infrastructure revealed how deeply creative digital work depends on networks, servers, wireless access, policies, cybersecurity, and systems…
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The Strategic Linchpin: Transforming Digital Tools into an Interpretive Platform
A strategic linchpin is a technology or approach that solves several institutional problems at once and becomes a platform for further work. Drawing on examples including the Preservation Technology Podcast and later digital initiatives, this piece…
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Knight Foundation Makes a Digital Heritage Dream Possible
A $100,000 Knight Foundation grant gave Vizcaya the opportunity to turn years of interest in 3D documentation into a practical visitor-experience project. Working with university and technology partners, the initiative combined photogrammetry, laser scanning, 3D printing,…
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Digital Media Approaches in Gardens and Historic Landscapes
An overview of digital approaches for interpreting, managing and sharing gardens, cultural landscapes and other living heritage collections.