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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Tags: personalization participatory museum.

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What Happens When a Viral Participatory Project is Too Successful? Diagnosing the Power of the Love Locks

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And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. The other participants teach you how to play. Nor are they historic. it is simple to do, but it feels significant.

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

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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.” inclusion'

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Flickr As Mechanism To Reconnect With Professional Colleagues

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I was teaching Web1.0 These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. Meet Susan Silverman.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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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.”. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. Participants were encouraged to focus on quantity of ideas and not to self-edit.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Experience working with a wide variety of age groups or teaching in general. Each month we work with 50-100 individuals to co-produce our community programs. Large and small (or no) followings.