Kyle Wickline

Work / Wing Luke Museum

Wing Luke Museum

A small, fast public engagement project about a new, empty lot next to the museum: what should it become, and who gets to say? I managed it for Framework, from the first concept to a live event on the site.

Client
Wing Luke Museum, Seattle
Role
Project Manager (contract), Framework
Timeline
March to June 2025
On the day
18 volunteers, one live event on the lot

The situation

The Wing Luke Museum had a new empty lot beside the building and an open question about what should happen there. The neighbors in the Chinatown–International District would live with whatever got built, and nobody had asked them yet in a way that got answers.

The museum brought in Framework, a cultural placemaking practice, to run a rapid public engagement project that used storytelling and emerging technology to help people imagine culturally rooted uses for the site. I was the project manager. It was a small engagement by budget and headcount, and it is the one piece of work on this site where the title on my contract matched the work I want to do more of.

What I was responsible for

  • Scope and planScoping the work with the museum and managing the project lifecycle from ideation to launch.
  • Timeline and budgetDelivering under a tight timeline and a small budget, with no room to slip the event date.
  • TeamCoordinating Framework’s creative team and keeping the creative direction on the museum’s priorities and the visitors’ needs.
  • EventPlanning the public event on the lot and overseeing 18 on-site volunteers on the day.

Who was in the room

The job was translation: between a museum with institutional priorities, a creative team with a concept, volunteers who needed clear roles, and a public that had to feel welcome enough to show up and say something true.

Stakeholder map for the Wing Luke Museum projectWing Luke Museumclient; priorities and approvalsFramework creative teamconcept, story, technology18 volunteersevent-day rolesNeighbors and visitorsthe people the lot is forTimeline and budgettight, fixedProject managermeStakeholder map for the Wing Luke Museum projectWing Luke Museumclient; priorities andapprovalsTimeline andbudgettight, fixedFrameworkcreative teamconcept, story,technologyNeighbors andvisitorsthe people the lot isfor18 volunteersevent-day rolesProject managerme
The stakeholders I coordinated between, March to June 2025.

What came of it

We delivered on time and on budget: a live, public event on the lot where neighbors could imagine what it might become. For me it was the clearest test yet of the work I want to do more of: a real client, a real deadline, a team to coordinate, and a public that shows up. I loved it.

Framework’s event materials and the museum’s findings belong to them, so this page stays at the level of what I did. I’m happy to talk through the specifics in conversation.