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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What happens to the surprises designers encountered, the interactive that visitors loved, the bits that never seemed to work quite right? But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. But exhibit design is transient and its documentation spotty. We live in a cyclical Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Design.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. Why people participate.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. These institutions are often more connected to their specific, local communities than more generic institutions. It's a Starbucks.

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