Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. We should see ourselves like those board games, where all the players have to work together to win. Both of these seem natural as we are in the business of ideas and we are adjacent to formal education systems.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. This label set up a casual game for me: look for orange, do the thing. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult. We talked afterwards.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. Heck, I even learned about a 17th century German drinking game. For the first time in a long time, I was personally interacting and engaging with the museum, the collection, and with complete strangers in a way that highlighted the art.

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Attending this press briefing will grant you access to a panel discussion and one-on-one time with some of the greatest minds and most influential s in the fields of technology, digital media, education and learning.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). By the time he got home, 10,000 new people had seen the video.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. It's better (though it takes a bit of time to load). It's like an organizational game of madlibs. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby. Facilitator bits.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. Every time a kid said, "I never knew science could be like this!" Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Accounting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. And what about the B Corp?

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The article suggests that museums have previously served one community--"traditional" museum patrons who are white and elderly--and must now be relevant to several other communities that are diverse in cultural, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds. Community centers don't ask you to cough up a $20 every time you come to hang out.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

On the web, such socializing can happen around games (MMOs), shopping (Amazon discussions), trip planning (TripAdvisor), music or book collections ( Librarything ). I’m conscious of other people’s “alone time” in the museum. Ideas design participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. the list goes on.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And we tell a story in the book of a video game called Star Citizen and it’s really an allegory for our time. So this is a video game that is a PC simulated universe game that a guy called Chris Robinson announced about five years ago. But the game still doesn’t exist. The game is incredibly late.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. They stand out, at least in America, because of their infrequency.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

At any time, there were two facilitators in the exhibit--one for the advice booth, and the other for the buttons. This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? How can educational programs at museums push the boundaries of comfort to support these special experiences? The Spy Museum puts on extraordinary educational programs. By sending people on missions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

For those who haven't listened, Radiolab is an hour-long popular science show that looks in-depth at topics like "emergence," "time," and "mortality" from a range of scientific perspectives. Could you imagine a curator, designer, or museum educator speaking this way about an exhibition? It's not the most fun game ever.

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

Now, education for the cause has spread in a way that organization’s couldn’t have planned for, and it happened without having to spend a single dollar on media buys. This global movement is a game-changer for our industry, and an incredible success story of the power of social media as an equalizer. It is made by many.

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