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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

Museum 2.0

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion'

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Reimagining Museums with Latin America Leading the Way

Museum 2.0

I first sensed the difference at the front door. Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The sounds of Spanish and English comingled as 800 delegates argued, danced, and envisioned el museo reimaginado. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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How Does Participation Work in Multi-Lingual Museums?

Museum 2.0

Here in Barcelona, it's standard to see three languages on labels (Catalan, Spanish, English), and in Scandinavia I've seen as many as six. Even in North America, it's becoming typical to see two languages on the walls. As far as I see, an institution like this could: focus on non-language-based participation.

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Kids, Coercion, and Co-Design

Museum 2.0

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

Museum 2.0

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The motivation behind it is the same: the body language equivalent of saying "you should look at this.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks.

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