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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

We tried on clothes, listened to new music, and threw pennies in the fountain. It’s ironic, when you think about the great pains that museums and libraries go to to create spaces that are β€œteen-positive,” that malls attract kids effortlessly with fluorescent lights and lousy music. What does this place have for me?”

Lesson 20
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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought. Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules). When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

Museum 20
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One-Man Bands and Museum Labor as an Access Barrier

Museum 2.0

He wandered around the big top playing music with his jiggered musical contraption attached to his body. We might think of structural racism or the classism inherent in our funding structures. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business.

Museum 29
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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce." We're making some progress. Britt Bravo: What brought you, personally, to this work?

People 43
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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. The next one is place and time. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy.