article thumbnail

Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. And experience design takes just as much “getting scrappy” when traditional methods are no longer an option. This all sounds great, in theory.

Design 52
article thumbnail

Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

Museum 2.0

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. But in the museum, the distribution method is more personal. Tags: design participatory museum.

Design 21
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Design-thinking, for example, offers museums a method of including empathy in their work.

Museum 21
article thumbnail

"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks. The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. This allowed listeners to call from their respective networks, making it cheaper. What’s ahead for Freedom Fone.

Press 49
article thumbnail

How to Make Better Decisions Online

Non Profit Quarterly

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” While the promotional materials all sound impressive, don’t believe everything you read.

Online 101
article thumbnail

[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

That sounds great. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Steven: Yes. Will do it. Julie: Great. Steven: Julie, you’re awesome. It’s beautiful, wonderful when everyone comes together, but then you have so many personalities and ideas, agendas can get messy really quick.

article thumbnail

Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

If it’s not open to the public, I don’t care if it’s a book or a fossil—the methods of interpretation and audience engagement are fundamentally different. There was lots of discussion about the relevance of our assets and interpretative methods. How can our expertise and assets be applied towards new ends?

Library 20