Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?" to "how?".

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). The chart writer’s role is to captures the groups ideas. Whenever possible, the chart writer writes down the speaker’s exact words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Roles cards. What questions do you have? Get the game pieces here: Playing grid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Answering these two questions is important to us at the Accelerator. Of the 50 studies we reviewed just one started with the question – “ What skills, capacities are needed to help us achieve our mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. Defining Roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

What should be our role(s)? Some might say that only museums with specific African American collections have a role, or perhaps only museums situated in the communities where these events have occurred. We urge museums to consider these questions by first looking within. University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Will it give a sense of energy and change?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. While some in the art world are heralding Carminero''s act as expanding the role of art to disrupt and make political statements, I feel that this is a pretty straightforward issue of a criminal act. Sometimes, Rocky lets visitors join in on the smashing.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

But users play a role via their own agency--both in how they engage and when they break the rules. And so I humbly submit two questions to ask yourself when thinking about user participation: What is our negotiating stance in developing this relationship with participants? Sometimes the negotiation works beautifully.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

This is the question I've been toying with this week. For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. But that wasn't my role with Downward Draw. Approximately 100 people walk by while the program is going on. How many people participated? They asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. But what role does the initial community participation play for general visitors who may or may not care about textiles? Does it matter?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. At every moment the question of restoration was countered with the preservation of traces. risk participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” This “Dr.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Production System: The purpose here is the non-profit’s itself, and the maps describe relationships and roles in realizing the purpose; this commonly models how the organization does its work. . Key is a participatory development process. Generally there are three types of purposes that are priorities for non-profits to understand. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. If you can’t find someone to take on this role take breaks - say every 10 mins - to check Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

They identify a list of questions for the field to consider -- many of these topics the nonprofit blogosphere has been discussing in parallel as it relates to nonprofits and social media integration. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 communications?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

While each challenge had a specific question/theme, the form of the artifacts were left up to the individual participants. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. I often had to introduce the participatory elements to get visitors to join in.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. Who their role models are. But now it''s everywhere. It''s exciting. And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country.

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