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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

Museum 2.0

They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Some students folding clothes. This problem isn't unique to Temple Contemporary.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Go read it. The skill set: Play ???

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

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” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?"

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. and displayed in the museum. and displayed in the museum. Management was horrified.

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