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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. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

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Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” Talk to the folks at Instructables. Projects participatory museum. And hopefully, start to value them.

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Why Doesn't Anyone Comment on Your Blog?

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They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. They're like magazine articles. Thanks to Maria Mortati and David Cheseborough and Dimitry van den Berg and Beck Tench and Shelley Bernstein and Paul Orselli (again) and all the museum bloggers whose work inspires and instructs me.

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