Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. 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.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. Crowdfunding allows you to harness the power of the crowd in a way that is affordable, efficient, and effective.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. With this in mind, when we produce participatory experiences, while our impetus is to serve our power users with extra content or “check for understanding” interactives, there are so many other ways to use interactives. That’s huge.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The sounds of Spanish and English comingled as 800 delegates argued, danced, and envisioned el museo reimaginado. There wasn't one. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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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

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

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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be That may sound sappy, but these are tough times for people working in the arts. But maybe it should be.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. This all sounds great, in theory. 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

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Hosted by a sound art collective, Ultra-red, the 2015 event promised "to investigate listening as a political activity and to interrogate the stakes of participation in neoliberalism." It reenergized me about focusing my limited time, energy, and creativity on the participatory opportunities that fuel me and my dreams.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out. Sounds good? Special Projects interns, who will do, well, whatever you want. Come join us.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2014

This can sound disingenuous. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out' Fundraisers often say that "it''s an honor to be asked." But it''s true. That''s what building a movement is all about.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

This is the participatory museum, played out loud. A special skill. It's not their job to present their abilities to us. It's our job to welcome them, invite them to contribute, and give them the tools to do so.

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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. Please help us. Our website is navigationally challenged. You don't have to be in Santa Cruz for this one.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

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. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project? Most people can’t or won’t (certainly, they don’t) take that much time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. In short, deconstruct it and face it head on.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. Talking with Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum, it sounds like GO comparably sparked a huge number of community conversations in artists' studios around Brooklyn. What happens when you let visitors vote on art?

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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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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. s licensing and that of the sound bite? Sounds of Samba??? Beth's Flickr Stream. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it! more is better???

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. With social media and participatory experiences, we shouldn't just focus our design efforts on what sounds cool or is easy to conceive. design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

When I tell people this in a presentation, it can sound vague or dubious. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Tags: design participatory museum. This museum was unusual in that the lobby area had a high concentration of pop art meant to appeal to a wide audience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

If you are reading this outside the United States, this sounds ridiculously basic. 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. People at work with the games running in the background on their computers.

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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. This may sound silly, but there are probably some people who'd be happy to contribute in this way (and may not want to write their own comment). So what are the options?

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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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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. You don't need to start with participatory design shooting for the deep discussion among strangers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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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. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. This is the holy grail for me. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about. What would you do?

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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. We have qualified researchers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." They sound obvious, but several took me years to figure out. Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. They have arguments about consciousness without sounding pretentious. And that makes it feel much more participatory. They ask each other the dumb questions a listener wonders.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

If this sounds like you and you would like to contribute as a blogger, please email me (nina @ museumtwo. The book will be about applying community and participatory design principles to museums, and I'm going to try to complete it by summer of 2009. com) I'm going to host an in-person retreat in the fall of 2009.

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