Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

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Costa Rica Game Change Uganda 111

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? I wanted to cheer, but the first thought in my mind was, "Are you crazy? Children's museums are the exception; staff are on the watch for unaccompanied adults and kids alike. Tags: participatory museum visitors. The irritating design?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Everything about my approach is about the wisdom in the room. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 124

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. A place where knowledge grows in collaboration w/ a broad range of people both within & beyond the museum, from scientists to children & all in between.” A 24/7 resource always top of mind.”

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Museum Place Life Ohio 36

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I designed share pair exercises that incorporated reflective questions about translation. I don’t teach that way. All in all, I loved my time in Kenya.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 96

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unschooling" is an an educational theory that argues that people of all ages (including children) learn best when their work is self-directed--and that children are better at determining what and how they should learn than any accredited school or instructor. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

That's part of what so surprises me since, as you aptly described it, what LAMs really like is the idea of the democratic, civic-minded space. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience.

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