Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. If you design interactives for kids, adults recognize that the experience is not for them, and they don't engage. But I don't think that theory holds up. The colors are muted.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Through Lost Childhoods , we saw youth step into their power. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. What did we learn?

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being.

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Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. To recreate childhood photographs. To celebrate political differences.

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue. This big idea excited us all.

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Action Childhood Artist Info 44

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. Old power works like a currency.

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