Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. This week at my museum, as we are wrapping up our current set of exhibitions on collecting, I noticed a simple, subtle example of this that I thought might interest you. that we selected during prototyping.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Each prompt was tied to a different artwork in the exhibition. Each of these activities invited contribution on a different level. Collaboration in the months before the show. Some with a colored pencil.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. Here are three possible explanations for this gender divide: Men and women use bathrooms differently. But not so much in the men's bathroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully? The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is a guide about how to navigate and thrive in a connected world that has been increasingly been influenced and increasingly defined by two different forces, old and new power. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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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?

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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." the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. The fundamental question here is how we balance different modes of audience engagement. They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation. Collection of Nonprofit Design Thinking Playbooks This blog post profiles different nonprofit design thinking toolkits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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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. Instead, they installed more book drops and return shelves, labeled with different descriptors like "boring," "great for kids," "funny," etc. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations know they are making a difference in their unique communities, but do they also know how to showcase that impact? “ Your Guide to Program Data Discovery ” will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 from 11:15 am – 11:45 am PST and focuses on how technology can help visualize impact in an easy-to-digest fashion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. But Vi's tour also reminded me how dramatically different a community museum is from a typical institution. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Tags: personalization participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. In different meetings, we’ve created breakout rooms so people with stronger technology skills can support others who feel less comfortable by screensharing and/or being the ones to take notes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. Cultural differences can play out on local levels as well. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nonprofit leaders must model diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, like recruiting their next board members from different, diverse networks. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity? The facilitation methods are participatory. You also need to establish meeting norms or rules of engagement and then design and facilitate the process to get results.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Reflective Practice.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Each member of the team brought a different perspective based partly on their work in the organization. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations.

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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. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Quality Shakespearian theater is different from quality contemporary dance. Here, in no particular order, are ten different kinds of quality in arts experiences: AESTHETIC: is it beautiful? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. It can unlock several.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. In 2020, the pandemic accelerated the digital journey for many organizations.

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