Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. I show the tool and then they say, “yeah, but we really want people to share their own stories about fly-swatters,” or, “we think our visitors can make amazing videos about justice.” You see the overall value of the project.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts bridge. And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. Your love is memorialized forever. The other participants teach you how to play.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are not the only people with stories to tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. Or just keep your ears open.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. There are some great quotes.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

In this guest post, Stefania Van Dyke, Master Teacher for Textile Art and Special Projects, tells the story of how the co-creative development and visitor participation in the “Thread Studio” that accompanied their 2013 summer exhibition, Spun, changed her perspective on her own work. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Instructional Design Notes.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Ensure that you as convenor are talking for a very small amount of the time--ideally just to frame, contextualize, provide clear instructions, and keep people moving. Use unorthodox activities to inspire fresh thinking.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. Geography is key. It''s powerful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. All of the instructions are handwritten on paper or cardboard. Projects design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. And that makes it feel much more participatory. They discuss, on air, their feelings about how stories should be represented, discussed, and spiced up.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . The station received “wonderful stories from the field,” lasting anywhere from 10 seconds to 3 minutes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. Spore is a chemistry set without instructions, and only some of us are motivated to invent our own experiments. What does "game 2.0" What does the ultimate "game 2.0"

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

After the results are up, the screen could instruct visitors to find someone in the room who voted differently from them, or just to ask their neighbor what they think about the issue and or the results. The game could instruct people to share voting stations and to use a brief discussion to come to a consensus vote.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

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. I don't think so. marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. There are many other stories and opinions besides mine to contribute to the conversations on these posts, and you have done so incredibly richly. Thank you to the intrepid commenters who have jumped in on this blog and shared your stories.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

What if you sent your members requests for their best and worst visit stories and then posted those stories publicly on your website? Consequences of Listening Two years ago at the ASTC conference, an exhibits director told a story about giving clipboards to all of their teen floor staff with a list of every exhibit in the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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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. conversation that followed. What compels you to talk to strangers?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. The convenors set up a lovely wiki and gave us specific instructions to answer research questions posed on a series of pages. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. over email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Cultural Norms Around Instructional Delivery: I had learned that instructional delivery in Kenya tends to be very formal, mostly the “sage on the stage&# lecture approach. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. Encourage our audience to share their stories, not just tell people what we do.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It features three parts: very clear instructions on how to participate, a map of all of the contributions to date , and photos of the contributions. People shared stories of coming back to visit their creations again and again, seeing how the ocean and other people had altered their designs. design participatory museum usercontent.

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