About this project
Design Museum Boston has teamed up with design students at Wentworth Institute of Technology to create an impact this summer. The exhibit, Retail: Retell. Recycle. Rethink. educates consumers about the products they buy. Retail leaves consumers understanding that they are buying more than a water bottle or a t-shirt, they are buying the process behind these products and accepting their responsibility within the product lifecycle.
The product lifecycle is the entire process,past, present, and future, behind the things we use; from conception, through design and manufacture, to service, disposal, or recycling. The goal of Retail is to create a new understanding of products and provide a skill set for consumers to make educated decisions on future purchases.
Under the direction of Design Museum Boston founders, Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, a group of 12 design students are creating this exhibit from the ground up. Already a few weeks into the program, the team has outlined the content they would like to cover and developed a complete branding guide for the project. With the conceptual phase coming to a close it is time to begin raising funds to launch the exhibit into the production phase.
From all of us at Design Museum Boston and from the design students at WIT, thank you for your support!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 4, 2011.
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Design Museum Boston is a newcomer to New England’s cultural landscape and the region’s first museum dedicated solely to design. Its mission is to educate the public on the role of design in their lives and to unite the design community in ways that enrich their collective work and solve real-world problems more creatively. Design Museum Boston is a decentralized network of physical and virtual exhibits. Whether in a gallery, retail environment, public spaces or on the web, its programming gives audiences new insights into the design process and the greater social, economic, and environmental contexts that both affect and are affected by design.
