Discovering the Glass House Conversations
December 14, 2009
The Philip Johnson Glass House team has been working hard through the project’s discovery phase, gathering and synthesizing data that will help steer the direction of the project. We’re creating an online experience that will support the incubation of new ideas and dialogue around themes in design, architecture, social issues, humanism, and more.
As part of the synthesis process of the project, the team has been listening to past conversations held at the Glass House, organizing ideas and quotes into categorical themes that could be later used as a means to unify design ideas. Another important piece of this process is learning about the past participants of the Glass House conversations. Over the next month, we’ll have the chance to interview some of the thought leaders involved in these conversations. The aim is to gain critical insight on their experiences while learning more about their role and contributions in their day-to-day discourse.
This past week, the group responsible for leading the project’s discovery phase presented three conceptual approaches to the project. These themes were described at a high-level as metaphors for how the different elements of design on the future website could be unified.
With the holidays approaching, we’re setting out to work through our best concept in more detail, while also organizing questions for the interviews we’ve set up this week. Look for our next blog post that will detail our experience conducting interviews.
