Executive Production Services

Organizing Strategic Alliances

White Oak provides Executive Production Services to large-scale projects that need strategic and creative direction integrated with economic controls. Our expertise and contacts focus on the growing field of popular family museums, science centers, children’s museums, aquariums and natural history and history museums.

White Oak coordinates and manages the key parties and structures a fair relationship among all parties by managing agreements from the initial concept development phase through opening or launch.

The Science Center of Iowa (rendering by the architects, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca)

Devoted to skill development and lifelong learning, the new 120,190 square foot facility in downtown Des Moines offers dynamic exhibit experiences, an IMAX® Dome Theater, a Science Adventure Theater for live performances and SCI’s renowned preschool for early childhood learning.

White Oak was the Program Manager/Executive Producer for all exhibits, programs and theaters in the new SCI. This assignment grew out of our work on SCI’s Strategic Master Plan and its Room Book, defining the architectural program.

Executive Production Summarized

Executive Production covers a wide range of services to our clients. White Oak’s area of expertise includes:

Organizing strategic alliances to bring a large scale project to fruition
Developing and implementing an integrated visitor experience that finds common ground among all the interested parties
Assembling a team of experts specific to your project, managing agreements, and implementing budget and schedule controls
Focusing the team on the project’s vision, values and decision filters.

Executive Production Services Applied

Strategic Budgeting
Scheduling & Process
Selection & Contracting
Development of core educational philosophy and learning models
Identification of appropriate visitor and market research
Development of the architectural program
Conceptual planning of all facility-wide spaces and circulation
Definition of all functional adjacencies
Programming of visitor experience, museum, and “back of house” functions
Specification of exhibit service requirements
Specification (in user language) of exhibit information technology
Specification (in user language) of exhibit media technology
Specification and design of exhibit infrastructure (the “experience platforms”)
Definition of the exhibit design firm selection process
Coordination between visitor programming and architecture
Coordination between architecture and exhibit design

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