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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

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Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

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Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? If the goal is for organizations to adopt these frameworks as their own, I think we need a lot more supporting material--and maybe fewer different taxonomies. What do you get out of the report?