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

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Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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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.