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"It Is What It Is," and the Challenges of Dialogue-Focused Exhibits

Museum 2.0

The piece features two guests, an Iraqi translator and a US Army reservists, who hang out in a conversational space, flanked by maps of the US and Iraq and a powerful artifact--a car that was destroyed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad. In the Living Library, there is a concrete entrypoint to challenging discussions.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Van: Well, we are on the right side of history with this one, I mean at the end of the day, we are on a completely unsustainable course as a society. It's kind of lonely, and it gets kind of weird sometimes--I'm talking to Sharon Stone or Bill Clinton or Angelina Jolie or something, and I say, "Damn, I'm a long way from West Tennessee."

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