Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

To get permission to place stakes like these in a city park is not a trivial matter (it can be hell, in fact), but it’s absolutely essential for the gameplay. The lesson here is a really important one for today, and it’s this: the storytelling ego that’s so important in non-participatory media can be a liability in participatory media.

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Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. I will give you some direction and wander down longingly to see how things are going, but mostly, you'll have the run of the place.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

As the book points out, while fast, frequent, and informal makes it all sound easy, there is an art to it. Sharing has to help spread authenticity, emotion, and point of view. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. This means sharing stories and visuals.

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Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Go through the institution and identify places, artifacts, or exhibits that are highly conducive to social sharing. You should also look for places that are explicitly not social and should stay that way (i.e. When I tell people this in a presentation, it can sound vague or dubious. Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum Technique Taiwan Social 41

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

If you are reading this outside the United States, this sounds ridiculously basic. I got into museum work because learning happens in many places and many ways. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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Arts Build United States Audience 47

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. I'm now imagining a card with a place for "Your Comment (English)," "(Spanish)," and so on down the side. So what are the options?

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Museum Work North America Language 38

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. OK, so gifting sounds good. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving?

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

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. One person points, another person looks, and a social exchange takes place.

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Design Participatory Social Museum 21

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Who is going to create and lead this place?

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We talked to visitors and made and placed cards for about half an hour. 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. It was a super low-tech "if you like this, check out that" strategy.

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

a more community-oriented place. These posts will be an opportunity to hear from more people who are experimenting, leading, and banging their heads against the challenges of incorporating participation into museums and other public cultural places. Per your suggestions, in 2009. My goal is 2-4 per month.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

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. This may sound obvious, but we all fall victim to featuritis when we get seduced by the idea of live bodies. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

It's not because the boardwalk is a social place. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Step 1: people on line wait for rollercoaster. Why does this happen?

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Sounds good? Registrants are encouraged to come a day early to explore the Faire together on May 30, after which I am happy to host you at my place for the night before the retreat starts. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site.

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. Steve has a deep, fake “god” voice, which makes him sound both benevolent and like someone you want to please. For each of these, he says to point even if you can’t see the place – just point to where you think it is.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Placing feedback stations in the open lowers the probability of socially inappropriate behavior, and it also allows parents and teachers to help struggling visitors answer the questions at hand. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

It sounds as if Mr. Sametz is frantically casing city streets with a heat-seeking metal detector, on the hunt for a miscellaneous batch of confused folks whom he can stun into "connection." It means making some conscious choices that push your institution towards being more of a " third place. " It's a place you can use.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. In contrast, the content review took place over several months and was open to as much or little as people wanted to do.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. An office manager told us she never went to the microphone to pose a question at a lecture, because she assumed that everyone else in the room was an expert and she would sound like an idiot. A place many museums are not. Why not do it at the museum?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Before the project, neither station had an existing IVR system in place and the primary feedback loop with listeners was through written letters. . The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks. This allowed listeners to call from their respective networks, making it cheaper.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

To some people, these events may sound like losers. The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. First, many online communities (or communities of any kind) are looking for comfortable, low-cost places to meet. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It sounds like this will make lobby membership sales a lot more complicated to pitch. How do you plan to change your communication strategy once these segments are in place? If you are interested in this topic, you might enjoy this interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard and Chapter 2 of The Participatory Museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. You mentioned that local stories are one of the places where reporting is going to be lost, or is needed. how would that work?

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Interview Fund Report Community 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits).

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 Without good listening, these all sound like risks.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. And while the contract negotiations sounded hellish, the internal support for the game was surprisingly easy to come by. are frigging cool indeed.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I get that they are places. But places are sites for people to congregate paid for by people and planned by people. When the galleries are quiet, with my clipclop shoes the only sound, the museum feels dead. It’s a place for people to explore. It’s a place for people to explore. I wonder how people-centered it was.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Throw in the real-time nature of a museum visit, visitors' reticence to participate socially in the museum, and archaic data systems, and this may sound downright impossible. The more the agency to act on a shared link is placed on the pointee rather than the pointer, the less likely he or she is to follow through.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It doesn't matter if you are creating a didactic diorama or a participatory smorgasborg if the experience is fundamentally about your desires rather than visitors'. Technology has filled this gap where we feel more comfortable pursuing the slimmest glimmer of hope from a safe place rather than opening ourselves up to social risk.

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Museum San Jose Participatory Social 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. If visitors could write on post-its anywhere in the exhibit, why did they also need a place to scrawl with marker on an actual wall? Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. They are best-used in situations when a team of people is working together on something and needs a central place to document their efforts, or when a group of people come together to share lots of content in parallel and want to document it (i.e. So when do wikis work?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. And they make participation more accessible by creating easier opportunities for people to engage at times and in places and languages that work for them. You may be overwhelmed by the options.

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Online Participatory Proposal Platform 101

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That sounds great. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. ” But after a few meaningful meetings, some small wins, people are starting to see it fall into place, what the plan could look like, right, what the community could look like, and that it looks like it’s going to happen.

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Community Video Slides Survey 76

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Many librarians cited Ray Oldenberg’s book The Great Good Place for its definition of “the third place”—not work/school, not home—where people can go to find community. Becoming “the third place” is vastly appealing and highly unrealistic given the current limits of our institutional support for communities.

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