Category Archives: Barry Joseph Consulting

Sneak peak at cover for my upcoming book on museum design

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Barry

Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums takes the reader behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovates visitor digital engagement, highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the … Continue reading →

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Mayor Adams Announces Funding for Gaming Pathways (one of my projects)

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Barry

As I posted here last March, Mayor Eric Adams has announced, in his economic recovery plan for New York City “Rebuild, Renew, Reinvest,” that increasing the video gaming industries contribution to the city’s economy is a high priority for his … Continue reading →

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Bring the Borscht back to the Borscht Belt & Seltzer Museum

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Barry

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s on Long Island as a Jewish kid, I was not alone traveling to Sullivan County (an hour or so northwest of NYC) to vacation at the grand resorts – Kutsher’s Country Club, the … Continue reading →

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New Public Gaming Events for NYC High School & CUNY Students at CCNY

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Barry

Last month I shared I would be producing events to support the new Public Pathways project at the City College of New York, designed to create academic and career opportunities for an emerging gaming community for teens living in Harlem, … Continue reading →

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Universities and NYC Connecting the Dots on Youth, Learning and Gaming

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Barry

I have two things to re-post, both shared a few days ago. There’s a theme connecting them together (and no, my involvement, while real, and with more to be shared soon, is not it). Want to hazard a guess? Mayor … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Barry

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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MuseumNext Presentation 1: Looking at Gaming in Museums

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Barry

This week I had the honor of presenting not once but twice at a MuseumNext conference. A year ago I wrote here about how I used Clubhouse to make connections at a MuseumNext; then last fall I wrote here about … Continue reading →

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DECEMBER 2021 BJC NEWSLETTER: My Year in Review

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Barry

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

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Barry

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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My RAND Corporation webinar: Becoming Well Played – The Impact of Gaming on U.S. Culture (and Beyond)

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Barry

This Wednesday I am thrilled to have the opportunity to present a webinar jointly supported by the RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy and the RAND Center for Gaming: Becoming Well Played – The Impact of Gaming on U.S. … Continue reading →

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