Government & Diplomatic · Washington, D.C., United States · Since 2019

Smithsonian Futuro Host

The world’s largest museum and research complex. Project authors engage the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo—not as visitors, but as practitioners whose Legacy Projects intersect with collections that archive the hemisphere’s scientific, cultural, and artistic record.

TypeGovernment & Diplomatic
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., United States
First Convening2019
DesignationFuturo Host
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"We really need to have a combination of government and private and international cooperation to make these things happen."

— Dr. Peter L. Jakab · Emeritus Curator · National Air and Space Museum

In Their Voice

A principal speaks

Dr. Peter L. Jakab · Dr. Peter Jakab at Smithsonian — Futuro MMXIX

Nature of Collaboration

The world’s largest museum and research complex. Project authors engage the Smithsonian’s nineteen museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo—not as visitors, but as practitioners whose Legacy Projects intersect with collections that archive the hemisphere’s scientific, cultural, and artistic record.

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Shared Work

Engagements & convenings

2019 · Convening

Futuro MMXIX — Smithsonian Visit

Project authors engaged the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum during the Futuro MMXIX cycle in Washington, D.C., hosted by Emeritus Curator Dr. Peter L. Jakab.

What Happened

Dr. Jakab — a four-decade curator and one of the world's foremost scholars on the Wright Brothers — convened the cohort for a conversation on creativity, invention, and how technical and aesthetic minds share a common visual imagination. The session connected each project author's Legacy Project to the longer historical record of how innovation actually emerges over time.

What It Produced

An on-the-record exchange now archived as Futuro MMXIX video material; an institutional point of reference for how BeNeXT thinks about heritage and innovation as collaborators rather than opposites.

Voices from this Institution

Principals who have collaborated

Dr. Peter Jakab

Emeritus Curator & Former Chief Curator, National Air and Space Museum

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Convening Archive

Pictures & video from joint work

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