THE EAMES INSTITUTE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY is moving its collection of 40,000 works by the designers Charles and Ray Eames from a warehouse in Richmond to a 166,000-square-foot site in Marin County. 

There, the collection will spread out into several exhibitions and bloom as the centerpiece of a new world-class design museum. How will the curators of this mid-20th century modernist collection use it educationally to help visitors understand the very different century we are in now? 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.