Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

2023: A Year At Work and Play

Mark Twain once said: “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Twain, clearly, never worked with me! My favorite part of running my own consultancy is … Continue reading

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Teaser for Video Game Exhibit in Harlem: The Great Connector

How do youth use games to form connections with themselves, their communities, and their future? This is the topic of a new video game exhibit I am co-curating which will open in winter of 2024 at the Harlem School of … Continue reading

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American Alliance of Museum’s Blog Post on my New Museum Design Book

The American Alliance of Museum is co-publisher of my recent book, Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums, which came out in spring (use the promo code RLFANDF30 for a 30% discount). I am excited by this … Continue reading

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Live TV Coverage of Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on NY1

NY1’s Roger Clark, at New York City’s local 24-hour news station, visited the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum on May 11th and 12th, 2023. It was the first TV coverage of the museums and the 5min+ segments ran all morning on Friday (I … Continue reading

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Invitation to My Book Launch Party for Making Dinosaurs Dance

You are cordially invited to attend my book release party for my latest: Making Dinosaurs Dance. Please read below for the details and how to RSVP (required). I hope you can join us! BOOK LAUNCH PARTY For Author and ECT … Continue reading

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Guess Who Just Started Teaching Digital Design in Museums at NYU…

My grandfather, Ben Joseph, received his medical degree in the 1920s at New York University. In the 1950s, my father, Paul Joseph, followed in his footsteps, getting his medical degree from NYU as well. In the 1990s, I took a … Continue reading

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Unboxing My New Book on Digital Design in Museums

Yesterday a box arrived in the mail, this time not from Amazon. Instead, it was from the publisher of my new book: Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums. It’s such a thrilling experience to receive a … Continue reading

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MuseumNext Presentation 2: Failing Forward: Museum game Fails and what we learned from them

In my previous post I shared video and poems from my first presentation this week at MuseumNext’s conference on games and museums. This post is about how we closed out the event with Failing Forward: 10 favorite Museum game Fails … Continue reading

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DECEMBER 2021 BJC NEWSLETTER: My Year in Review

This fall I began to send out monthly newsletters about my work across a wide range of fields. If you would like to receive these (about my work, but there are also ones about my two upcoming books), please sign … Continue reading

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Announcing development of new RAND racial equity policy games

I can finally announce my new partnership with the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP) at the RAND Corporation to produce games about racial equity policy. Phew – it was hard keeping this one a secret! What is RAND, … Continue reading

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