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. This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. They see this as directly related to the founding principles of the Mill as a place of experimentation, design, creating, and making. It''s serious.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Elsewhere is at the top of my list of places I would most like to visit. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. This past July, artist Guillermo Gómez proposed to restore a piece of art.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. The Market Street Prototyping Festival stirred up a few thoughts related to design in public places, prototyping, and communicating complexity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. That's all fabulous, but it's also all by design. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. The magic isn't by design.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. all over the place.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Could you offer your auditorium as a meeting place? inclusion'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." All of a sudden, I looked at my town as a place teeming with scientists in need of play. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. Museums are great places for bonding.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. While most of my favorites are small (idiosyncrasy is easier to maintain without too many committees), some are quite large--places like the Exploratorium where a singular ethos infuses a massive facility. They are places that people point to with pride and say, "that's our place."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. The sense of intimacy that comes with the relationships you can form in a small place is hard to match in a large one. But then an exhibit designer, Darcie Fohrman, made a comment that changed my perspective.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. Here are a few design decisions I noticed that I think really add to the Odditoreum's success: They are only featuring a few objects. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. I designed electricity workshops for families. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. The exhibition design suggests both democracy and intimacy.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. One exhibit designer told me, "we never seem to lack for good ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

have established viability in two ways—via designed experiences (exhibits, programs, courses) and access to assets (artifacts, books). The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Why are our current models failing?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? The design encourages browsing of the catalogue before selection of a Book, and the expectation is that you will spend a significant amount of time with any Book selected. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences.

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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. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Artprize invited me to talk about art with artists, families, security guards, friends, people old and young, sophisticated and novice, drunk and sober. Then get yourself to Grand Rapids for Artprize. It's the social experience. The prizes?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. There are few places where bridging happens naturally. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

If visitors could write on post-its anywhere in the exhibit, why did they also need a place to scrawl with marker on an actual wall? The bathroom wall was "anything goes" by design. This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

We need to ensure that the app is just a conduit to helps allow that connection to take place. We will be looking at how many conversations are taking place, the depth of those conversations, and how much conversational data is informing change of analog forms of interpretation. ASK is much more real-time. It really runs the gamut.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. And yet this reward, mixed with an intelligent project design, are enough to make this project attractive to people all over the world. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum. It's not marketing hype.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

User participation is a design and program strategy, and it should be used to make institutions better overall. When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" For Louise, the focus on "making great art" doesn't just demonstrate these artists' commitment to the co-creative process.

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