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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

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?

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

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For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. She is also working to bring into closer harmony the museum's dual mission: to be a repository for local history artifacts and to promote art exhibitions. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. Museums saw this project as an opportunity to engage local photographers to think creatively about how artworks might represent different topics. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. What is Click?

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