Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Heck, I even learned about a 17th century German drinking game. Today on Museum 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?" questions, which imply a correct answer. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

And to cut to the end of the story first, yes, we are creating a project together, yes, you can participate, and yes to whatever other questions this brings up in your head. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections.

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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?" And the next time someone questions the benefits of letting audiences actively participate, send them to Santa Cruz.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) The screen plays an interactive show that invites visitors to vote on a variety of issues related to human rights. Pressing the buttons was not particularly thrilling, and I never saw kids playing the usual bang-on-the-buttons game. with the issue.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. This label set up a casual game for me: look for orange, do the thing. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult. We talked afterwards.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Chris and Lucy Larson, the SJMA manager of interpretation, wanted to create something that would be both a marketing tool for the Road Trip exhibition and add an interactive element to the physical exhibition.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I host dating games. Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. Creating her own versions of classic board games like Guess Who? for the galleries.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas. This structures dialogue and makes it more productive.We

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. A New Kind of ARG Like most ARGs, the Luce Center's Ghosts of a Chance is an interactive narrative that rolls out over several weeks. The game website is clear.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

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. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I wondered what would happen if that interaction was scaled up. It's easy to ask visitors just one question. How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

There are different levels of interactivity. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asked you that question, how would you answer? Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters. "Where were you last night?"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. In this way, the MP3 experiment is an example of the ways that technological barriers can become benefits by mediating otherwise uncomfortable interactions. After the Nicaragua question, Steve says, “Most of you are pretty good at geography.”

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. The idea of sending winners a reward is nothing new, but in this case, the reward shares the same sensibility as the game, thus more effectively deepening the relationship.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). If you have any questions, I'm happy to share more.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. And yet these bar games have something that few museum adult programs offer: complete focus on the audience/participants, not the leader/speaker. It's fine to drop in and out of the game. It's reasonable to start a side conversation.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will be the platform for improving public awareness and receptivity to direct and interactive market driven philanthropy. This is your chance to meet, interact and learn from the best of the nonprofit best in fundraising, marketing and more. Games for Change Festival. Games for Change Festival. Strategic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

These days, it's fashionable to use label-writing to ask visitors questions. But asking a question, even providing a talk-back location for visitors to answer the question, does not guarantee an engaging social experience. Have you ever had someone ask you a question and not care to hear the answer? What do you think?

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Question Museum Participatory Voice 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. This makes the interaction feel "safe" for both parties.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. and put them up on signs behind glass.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. Tags: exhibition personalization usercontent interactives. Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This is a question I've been puzzling over now for a few months, both professionally and personally. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. What will it take for you to do it again? How do you form an arts habit?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? Missions turn experiences into stories, into games. And when you play a game, you understand that you have to do unusual things to win. Good question. By giving people roles.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

They articulate the basic questions and knee-jerk reactions in our own minds, carrying us deep into the content from a common starting place. Reread the question and substitute the word "visitors" for "listeners." It's not the most fun game ever. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. The power to define available interactions. This post provides some useful perspective if you have these fears or are grappling with those who are fearful.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

no tour guides or game masters), you need to start by designing personal services for users, then linking up users through shared interests or objects to promote interpersonal connections. You make them comfortable interacting on their own, and then start providing opportunities to connect with others. Ideas participatory museum.

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