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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Against Participation

Museum 2.0

I imagined an academic conversation stuffed with arcane, impenetrable vocabulary. I'd always assumed that more representation is better than less representation, more press is better than less press, more sharing and engaging is better than the alternative. I walked into Against Participation with my hackles up.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Voting on Art and its Surprising Consequences

Museum 2.0

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. In each of these examples, the press and public dialogue mostly revolved around the idea of public voting for art. Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. The artists’ challenge after a short three days on the ground is to design a response to the museum, press their experimentation with materials, and transform both object and artwork.

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Year One as a Museum Director. Survived!

Museum 2.0

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

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What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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