Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Vi started joking with us about our relationships and hometowns while making sure we all remembered each other's names. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Technology has altered the way to connect and cultivate professional relationships and it is also transforming how leaders lead. Listen at Scale: How to determine what people need from them and to deepen and enhance their relationship. Engagement helps shape relationships and it can unleash social capital.

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Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences comfort.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). The comments, which were previously unmoderated, suddenly were overloaded with opportunists who wanted their voice to be heard on the YouTube homepage. It doesn't launch new relationships.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Formerly avoided as a fount for litigation, apologies have now been shown to lead to less litigation and more positive doctor-patient trust relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For decades, this has been the reality of their lives, and they strongly believe that the Western world and its citizens have a similarly controlling relationship between individuals and government.” ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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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. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. What does this intermediation of dialogues mean? How can we use back-channels as a progressive force at conferences?

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Reflection Conference Resource Arts 69

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Develop relationships via any and all useful platforms that allow you to connect 1 to 2. While most of the voices represented are positive about a "Smithsonian 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants. So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. To learn more about the relationship between feedback format and quantity/quality of input. Tags: participatory museum usercontent. There are at least three reasons that cellphones may be great feedback devices.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Staffing: We have 2.25

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Skilled facilitators work towards supporting dissenting voices, ensuring participants understand different viewpoints.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 90

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. The repeat audience is strong, and participants form growing relationships with one another over the events. Flash back six months and I'm with friends at a hip bar in Washington DC, losing miserably at a weekly trivia night.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. it gets me excited.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Susmita De, Nonprofit-Share (Chief Operating Officer).

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. New voices energizing conversations. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I whole-heartedly support the goals that motivate the hire--to connect with visitors online and onsite in more meaningful relationships--but I worry about focusing such a broad mandate into the tiny point of a single individual. But they are more importantly the face and voice of the institution to everyone online, a floor staff army of one.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Ideas participatory museum usercontent.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So think about who has the trusting connection, and it allows them to continue to deepen their relationship with that stakeholder. . Who do we need to connect with, build relationships with, and what’s the funding? How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I've written before about the difference between participatory processes and products , but this question of frameworks and sensibility is more broadly applicable to community engagement strategies. A museum can be friendly, or serious, or funny, while maintaining a traditional relationship with visitors as consumers of experiences.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. When everybody knows what your institution is for (collecting and interpreting the past of your region, for instance) then we have common ground on which to build social relationships. Suzanne: We want relationships, too!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" Me: "Sort of."

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Also, it may not deliver what it might have done for participants: if our primary motivation wasn’t to make something spectacularly good, they may not have been involved in creating something of amazing quality, or have really developed their skills and confidence to be a creative voice to which others listened.

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