This website focuses on my work developing visitor experience strategy, exhibitions, programs, and publications that capture emotions and activate institutional vision.
An overview of my professional experience as executive and producer is available on LinkedIn.
Please contact me at gdreicer at gmail.
I’m a curatorial strategist, partnership builder, experience designer, and historian who creates multidisciplinary projects that engage people in discovery and conversation. My work has always included multiple perspectives: narrative diversity entertains as it welcomes audiences into complex issues.
I’ve conceived, developed, and managed projects ranging from institutional strategic and visitor experience planning to exhibitions, events, publications, and offerings in a variety of media. Within for-profit, nonprofit, and academic settings, I’ve worked with clients, creative teams, boards, advisory committees, and extended networks of stakeholders. National and international media have repeatedly recognized the innovativeness and emotional power of my work.
The success of projects I’ve led and contributed to is the outcome of a collaborative strategy that melds creative and production processes.
Inclusion. My projects have always included and featured people representing a broad range of experiences and perspectives.
Narrative. We construct community and place through the stories we share. Projects that embody diverse perspectives invite emotional connection and participation.
Participation. Audiences, visitors, guests, clients, patrons, members, and consumers—however you label them—come first in project conception. Steadfast commitment to this approach leads to modes of engagement that differ from standard curatorial practice.
Place. The specificity of place is the launch pad. Local and global are theoretical concepts that distract from an interconnected world.
Partnership. This is the source of each project’s potential.
Process. Planning, management, and communication are inseparable from content development and project implementation.
Academics. Many of my public projects have been on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship. I received my Ph.D. from Cornell University's Department of Science and Technology Studies. I hold an M.S. in Historic Preservation and a B.A. in French and Psychology from Columbia University. My post-doctoral academic positions include a Senior Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. I’ve taught at Parsons The New School of Design and MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Media coverage. My projects have been featured in media including New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Ming Pao Daily News, Architectural Record, Architect's Newspaper, Landscape Architecture, Technology and Culture, Radical History Review, Associated Press, Gannett News Service, Scripps Howard, CNN, local and national NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS, CBC, and numerous websites.