Bartosz Bończak’s CityWorks Contribution

Scheduled to remain on display for 10 years, “CityWorks” began taking shape when practitioners and planners, Bończak among them, began meeting around a table on a regular basis with a wide cast of specialists, practitioners, and museum directors. Their individual areas of expertise spanned journalism, psychology, environmental protection, engineering, city government management, and other fields and disciplines. . . .

“With people like Bartosz, the obvious benefit of consulting with them was the nuts-and-bolts of their expertise," said Katie McMillan Culp, chief learning officer at the New York Hall of Science. “They know so many uncovered secrets that are fascinating to the rest of us, and became part of the exhibition.”

“But even more importantly,” she added, “they helped us understand how they think about, and solve, problems in their work. Discovering how they organized their thinking gave us a template, and the pathways to understanding, that we want our visitors to experience.”