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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

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Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

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Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 1: Can Cultural Institutions Be Third Places?

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Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Museums are explicitly about something, and third places are about nothing in particular. On the other hand.

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Parents Talking with Parents: A Simple, Successful Discussion Board at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

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She's found great questions from her training in early childhood development, parenting magazines, and the occasional visitor comment that can be translated into a new question. This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. The institution facilitates the space and tools to allow visitors to provide information to each other.

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