Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. Every once in a while though, we stumble across a resource or reference from inside our very own wheelhouse. .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out. Special Projects interns, who will do, well, whatever you want. Our internships have generally gotten more structured.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. This one was cooked up by Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council and public art blogger extraordinaire.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. That's what I found myself wondering again and again in the too-short hour I spent with the director of Temple Contemporary, Rob Blackson. Leave the process to the collaborators and give the product to the audience. In most of these kinds of projects, the number of collaborators is finite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. In this approach, the Brainerd Foundation would focus on fostering sharing and innovation by thinking differently, funding differently, collaborating with other funders differently, and sharing differently—all starting tomorrow.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. And so on.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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