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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

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This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. She surveyed existing local programs. Subjects to Change was born.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

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By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. PieLab resembles other community development projects: it employs struggling teens, provides local entrepreneurs and organizations with space and support, and brings together diverse folks.

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Does Your Institution Really Need to Be Hip? Audience Development Reconsidered

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It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Everything about the event--from the time slot to the tone of the content to the music played--was designed for that audience.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

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We tried on clothes, listened to new music, and threw pennies in the fountain. They provide entry points to a collection of discrete, varied content experiences. In most stores, you can “try” the content in some way without making a purchase. Mall content connects strongly to people’s lives. But I grew up in L.A.

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