Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. The process is discoverable. The process is unequal.

Participatory 51

Participatory Process Open Proposal 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Crossing Cultures features paintings by Belle Yang that relate to her family''s immigration experiences. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent'

Participatory 45

Participatory Museum History Arts 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

Participatory 52

Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Evaluating a Culture. Cultural Organizing Needed for Equity: A Framework of Belonging. Community-based participatory research.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

Participatory 37

Participatory Museum Photography Unconference 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. vlogging, and podcasting). .

Participatory 50

Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

Participatory 39

Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. How an organization develops their plan will determine whether it is a valuable, useable tool for everyday decision-making, or a well-written document that no one cares about.

Process 98

Process Effective Wyoming Arizona 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

Participatory 20

Participatory Question Work Artist 20

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

Measure 52

Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

Participatory 48

Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

Participatory 30

Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Tags: design participatory museum.

Participatory 40

Participatory Project Library Netherlands 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

Teen 24

Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

Measure 40

Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. The following image conveys what this looked like in practice for the same cultural intermediary that used the matrix tool above.

Data 100

Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 100

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The word "quality" is often code for aesthetic quality, as judged by a specific set of cultural expectations and preferences. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Ideas cultural competency design' No one wants to do crappy work. Core Museum 2.0

Participatory 55

Participatory Museum Arts Culture 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing.

Global 91

Global Network Change Create 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Organizational resilience is about your organization’s work culture, specifically creating a positive one that includes being supportive, kind, and emphasizing meaningful work. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). Yes and no.

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). Yes and no.

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Well Being is about self, others, and organizational culture.

Professional 0

Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places? Facebook discussion board here.

Place 41

Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. While we will tour some of the MAH’s participatory programs and exhibitions, this bootcamp is not museum-centric. We'd love to have you here for this pilot year.

Community 31

Community Participatory Museum Registration 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce. Some Connection Points: Learning. Efficiency.

Network 95

Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

Registration 128

Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

Museum 49

Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" but I didn't have numbers to back it up. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

Audience 47

Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. And (don’t forget this bit) if you don’t trust the community.

Impact 123

Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. One thing I noticed during the meeting is that I was sitting more than I normally would because of the video and the cultural norm having the video on the whole time. How have you changed your organization’s meeting culture to be better? Design must comes first.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs. This is the participatory platform model. Now that we've opened Abbott Square , we have a goal to offer free cultural programming almost every day of the week.

Platform 31

Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

Second Life 50

Second Life Life Participatory Discussion 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector. This list doesn't include many approaches that I see transforming museum audiences, like political activism, multilingual programming, intergenerational events, or cultural festivals.

Audience 49

Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city.

Museum 40

Museum America South America Participatory 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas.

Story 121

Story Data Analysis Measure 121