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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. What would the structure be like? What about content?

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. Many people can’t afford the things we make, and our imagined users are molded by our biases and current power structures.

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Reflections from the Communications Network Conference: Wisdom of Crowds – Succeeding in Practice?

Forum One

DARPA’s Future Markets Applied to Prediction ( FutureMAP ) program tested whether prediction markets could help identify strategic intelligence. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. So what did you do next? That is more curated.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.

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