Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here.

Collaboration 36

Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

Fails for people where the business community decides that the market is too small. Fails when they choose to market a product, but they leave out certain communities because they don’t believe those communities are sufficiently profitable to be worth selling to. The market often fails to deliver what society most needs.

Business 100

Business Government North Carolina Chapter 100

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. Mitch Altman, one of the founders of the San Francisco-based Noisebridge , was quoted in Wired as saying: "In our society there's a real dearth of community. At hacker spaces], people get a little taste of that community and they just want more."

Museum 24

Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." You can see the museum's plants here and the aggregate community submissions here.

Virtual 20

Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20