Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

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. The result is that people get turned off, cynical, and leave.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. People were spending a long time working on them. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For those who can''t see the image, the card reads: When I first saw the "pastports" I didn''t really understand, but after reading what people wrote in them I felt an overwhelming connection to all the words of so many random people. People could take the pastports home or hang them, open to a preferred page, on a clothesline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Have people share why they chose or rejected certain items. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. Our interns include undergraduates, graduate students, and people of all ages looking to jumpstart creative careers in community engagement. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. Exciting, right?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. They are typically pulling information from different parts of the organization and trying to chase down information from other busy people. As funders, you know what information you need to make a decision.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Nonprofits must have a clear and compelling mission statement that states the organization’s reason for being.

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Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The key question is, every step of the way: how can you invite people beyond yourself to help make this step better? This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. Consider a mural.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

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Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

I’ll be honest that I was a bit nervous—this was my first work trip in over two years, and I was not sure if I was ready to be jammed indoors with hundreds of people. On a personal level, this convening was special, as it was the first in-person conference I attended since the outbreak of COVID-19, and it was a wonderful space to be in! .

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Reflection Philanthropy Participatory Culture 111

The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. Stewardship can NOT be an Afterthought! For far too many non-profits, donor stewardship is an afterthought. Get Them Involved – Donors tend to stay connected with organizations that engage their minds, hearts, and bodies in addition to their wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online. She said that it gave them a good understanding on what the people in the neighbourhood like to read.

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Participatory Project Library Netherlands 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She noted that you want your data to be representative of real people. She went on to say less predictable: “ People think that social change organizations should go slow and carefully. We deserve the best people and tech. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook. Well, screw that. We should move the fastest.

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Google Design Impact Participatory 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Innovating for People Handbook: Design Thinking Methods: A recipe book of human-centered design methods. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Even the people who benefit from the organization’s mission can provide valuable input on the strategic plan. There is no benefit to discounting any individual or group from participating in the planning process.

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Process Effective Wyoming Arizona 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. Consider a mural.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here! Blog about it. Tweet about it.

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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. It’s participatory. This allows them to relate to our unique experience and creates empathy between the two people. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Story Storytelling Profit Participatory 89

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

I would guess that most people have no idea that this work is happening at zoos. We give people content and then we say, "you decide." In contrast, check out charity: water , a non-profit that works to ensure safe drinking water for people around the world. I certainly didn''t. This can sound disingenuous. But it''s true.

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Action People Conservancy Africa 46

sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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Participatory Trend Community Grant 69

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. Our current exhibition is about why people collect things. One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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History Museum Minnesota Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We imagined an cart at the farmer’s markets where people could record stories. You can come alone or with up to three people.

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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