Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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Participatory Museum Photography Unconference 37

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. didn't mince words.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But as a creative type who has recently taken on an executive role, I've been fascinated, shocked even, to learn that the folks in the development department have been singing the relationship chorus for so long. "Development works when you are responsive to the donor's needs, not just presenting your own." On the one hand, this is awesome.

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

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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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Going Upstream: Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Justice. Community-based participatory research. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nonprofit leaders play an integral role in the promise of social equity. Without leadership prioritizing equitable practices, class representation suffers in these roles and lessens sector diversity. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Practice Effective Sudan Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. What is Participatory Grantmaking? And several ways not to do it.

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Participatory Trend Community Grant 69

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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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

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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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We understand now that everyone has a role to play. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. At Forum One, we have created a cross-disciplinary internal working group on accessibility. The future: Accessibility as the norm.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Sign up to indicate your interest or contact me directly to play a part. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

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. Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards. You Examples.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . This will require planning as you’ll have to assign roles, build your plot, and send props to attendees but the payoff will be more than worth it. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Games are fun.

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Virtual Ideas Game Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily. It would be a video, instructional role play, or case study, where a network leader would share their story of events leading up to the groan zone and getting past it.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

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. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

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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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The points above underscore the important role individual supporters play in the change process. In the above, the organization has connected its strategy to the immediate challenge and laid out the crucial role its supporters will play in implementing that strategy. Creating an “Opportunity” Narrative for Supporters.

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Challenge Strategy Participatory Roles 52

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.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

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 Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Everyone seemed to agree on two basic concepts: that museums should embrace community co-creation AND that museums can play significant roles in city-making. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Also, the diverse roles, backgrounds, talents, and opinions of my fellow attendees really enriched the discussions we had and enhanced my overall takeaway from the Summit. Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? I found the Summit to be valuable and inspiring. The format, for me, was a refreshing departure from most other conferences.

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

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 Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

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. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests. Sounds good?

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Museum Participatory Arts Attitude 34

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. It feels pretty amazing.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

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. THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF: Redefining our role in the community. THINGS THAT SURPRISE ME: The central role of event-driven experiences.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions. We think this makes for greater impact, but more importantly believe it is the right thing to do.”.

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Results Program Build Help 94

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. Buses don't employ drivers or operate on city streets to improve the comfort and participatory experience of riding.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . This will require planning as you’ll have to assign roles, build your plot, and send props to attendees but the payoff will be more than worth it. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Games are fun.

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Virtual Ideas Game Classes 52

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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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

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.

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Participatory Museum Blended History 32