Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned was a short-term retail exhibition that housed products—found objects—designed and packaged by Platte Forum's Art Lab high school students and Metro State students. Personal narratives of each youth were woven into the design process, reconceptualizing the products for the pop-up store. The interactive exhibit invited the public to experience the products on display, share their own life stories, and offer lessons of their own. For 10 weeks over, Art Lab interns met weekly with Communication Design students and professors from Metro State to conceptualize and create the exhibit. There is a lesson for every one to learn.