Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Hosted by a sound art collective, Ultra-red, the 2015 event promised "to investigate listening as a political activity and to interrogate the stakes of participation in neoliberalism." When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted.

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Participatory Museum Voice Press 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Sharing forges connections with followers that improves relationships, achieve goals, and amplifies a leader’s influence. The big shift that leaders have to make is to be more comfortable with openness. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post.

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Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. People talk.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution. "Where were you last night?"

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31