Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 29, 2010
This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. What's the "use" of visitors' comments? That's hardly revolutionary.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2016
You could spend a day getting lost in the meaty, thoughtful writing and videos on the Our Museum site. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. As this video points out, critics make you swear. I recommend starting with the final report, No Longer Us and Them.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2006
gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 16, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 2, 2013
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. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.
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. Watch the video at the top of this post, and you''ll see the requisite happy people of diverse backgrounds with power tools and post-its. It''s serious.
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