Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. not feeling "welcome") or don't mention their safety concerns at all.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

Sometimes it's a homeless person. This is the participatory museum, played out loud. This is the magic a piano in the lobby makes. We've now had a piano in the MAH lobby for several months. About once each week, a visitor walks in and blows everyone away. Sometimes a lover's duet. It's rare that someone sits down to bang out noise.

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Participatory Museum Sound Homeless 37

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We''ve gotten pretty good at doing this at museum programs, but it gets more complicated when we are working with a bonded group like a homeless center or a school tour. Making co-creation sustainable and powerful.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. The mission of the Skid Row School is to train leaders to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems as rapidly as possible.

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Turkey Model Museum Adopt 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The homeless community? Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Pick a specific community (or two). Don't say that your institution will be a "town square for the community." Which community? The Filipino community? The student community? When their needs conflict with other pre-existing communities' needs, make a choice.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. t doing something different - same staff, same tasks - but you are doing it a bit differently. Adding a new data point to it. Another example.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects.

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Museum Social Arts History 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. I'm just glad it did--and I want to do whatever I can to make it happen more often. Social bridging is becoming my why.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

tracking an agent, and inevitably end up interrogating homeless people and perfect strangers—engaging in social behavior they would never consider in “real” life. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort. At adult surveillance workshops, visitors hit the streets of D.C. When have you seen it work, and when have you seen it fail?

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Program People Museum Lecture 20