When the Smithsonian Institution launched a new series of events this week called Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, it included a streamed forum from Los Angeles, where participant…
for the project also includes additional content, as well as what Haykel calls a “production bible,” so viewers can plan and produce their own events.
“We ultimately know that everybody’s community, and it could be everybody’s neighborhood, has slightly different topics within these broad topics that are important to them,” Haykel said. “And so we are trying to really involve the country in this important discussion.” Also in the works is the use of augmented reality to tell stories tied to Smithsonian’s collection. Another topic planned inis arts and culture, so the project could feature, say Charlie Parker’s saxophone. Via an upcoming app, augmented reality could make it seem to appear in a viewer’s living room, and they could “walk around it, have a curator prerecorded talk about it. It could tell the story about jazz clubs, different forms of music and how they related to race,” said Haykel.
The idea, he said, is to create a “much stronger emotional connection to the material, and so we are trying to create those types of moments, where it’s a little bit of a ‘wow’ factor and it both educations entertains.” Mischer said, “we are television producers but I think that makes us very good for the experiential ends of this as well.” He said that when they were doing Taking the Stage, Bunch, then the director of the African American History museum, gave them some important direction that has helped guide them on this project. “Lonnie made it really clear: This is not about lack history. Yes, it’s got Black history in it, but this is American history.
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