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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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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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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

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As we flipped through the photos of the people we'd talked to, we saw hints of the curious stories that connected face to painting. This might sound unlikely, but with the right instruction set and a kind of game piece or card to use as a prompt, I think it could work. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 2: Participants' Experiences

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This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?