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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Two Years Later

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at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. Here are some highlights: Exhibitions that integrate crowdsourcing and co-design, including Click! There is funding.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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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. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Nov 8 - 11.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

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Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. and my emphatic response is YES. Content expertise matters.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

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I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. One of his students reflected: Using the interactive iPad book to test my own reliability in crime scenes and investigations was really powerful. So we had the key players. It hasn''t.

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

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While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away.