Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the opportunity to design my own two-hour museum adventure at the American Museum of Natural History presented itself, I jumped at the chance. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. There are two aspects of Side Trip that really stand out: the immersive environment and the design of the interactives. Projects design participatory museum. We’re all together, man.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. The focus is on bringing in outside influencers--folks from the Burning Man festival to World Without Oil --to help museum experience designers recharge, connect, and explore new ways to do creative work in teams. Imagine making and playing together. Sounds good?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. I knew that I didn't want to replicate the droning report-fests I'd encountered in other jobs. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Hosting Arts Help Museum 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" Here are some highlights: Exhibitions that integrate crowdsourcing and co-design, including Click! Two years later, things have changed for the blog--and more importantly, for the museum field.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. It will be interesting to see how people react to the conference and whether they feel valued or put upon in the participatory sessions. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

In many cases people were pointing at things that were simple in design and form--quotes, statistics, facts and figures. When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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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. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

The bathroom wall was "anything goes" by design. I think the bathroom wall made this possible by being an alternative for those who wanted to be a little less focused and just have fun with sharpies. This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design. They were totally focused on the questions and answers at hand.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We’re going to be using strategic planning processes to talk about how we can engage folks in helping to design the services, the programs, the community infrastructure that we all live in, right? So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

As one designer commented to me after last week's colloquium on museums and civic discourse, it feels fake, even condescending, like we're handing out little "talk back opportunities" just to give visitors something to do. Tags: participatory museum usercontent inclusion. A leading voice in declarative labels can hide. All of you.

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Question Museum Participatory Voice 20

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area. and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. Given this history, it is unsurprising that interest in alternative currency was rekindled in the wake of the Great Recession.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. These services could be a powerful, cheap alternative to comment cards--especially those that are focused towards making suggestions about the museum. Great user interface; see this in-depth article about its design.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. And alternatively, an institution can conduct co-creative projects with community members without altering its external sensibility or institutional tone.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I work in museums because I hate schools and see museums as a viable alternative. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. What we can do is design conditions and tools for access to those opportunities and a supportive infrastructure to encourage learning.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. They are seen as “add-ons” rather than alternatives, and in many cases are increasingly conforming to K-12 standards to justify their utility as sites for field trips and educational funding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. Alternatives? It was a collaborative library/design/art/community-building project. Eric: So what do you think a good "LAM as fourth place" model might look like?

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