Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. There are two main challenges when creating games: making a good game and making a game that achieves its goal. Collaboration and Epic Wins. Creating good games requires identifying: Your game's audience.

Game 40

Game Japan Nonprofit Teen 40

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here are a few design rules I use to think about what kinds of designed dialogue environments are right for different experience goals. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later.

Design 31

Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. And the guards were watching them; they didn't trust teens.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. But if the goal is to change as many peoples' perception of the institutional relationship to community members as possible, then limiting yourself to a hidden participatory process is problematic.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. And the reality is that it is not sustainable over time to burn the people to get to the goal. Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 87