On Monday, the ID team met with Charles Bethea, Chief Operating Officer of the DuSable, at the museum for a kickoff meeting. Lisa Montgomery, Director of IIT's Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion, joined us as well.
Charles gave us a tour of the museum to show us the existing exhibits and to explain some of the challenges inherent in using a repurposed building. We also saw the beautiful model of the new roundhouse building—the museum will be going through some big changes when it opens.
We're excited to be working with the museum during such an exciting transition! This project gives us some interesting constraints to design for: a variety of visitor types to engage (student groups, local families, tourists), spaces that need to be multipurpose and succeed in form and function, and a need to stay true to the Chicagoan and African American communities of which the museum is a part.
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