Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Tags: Government Transparency. Open Standards.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

donation to the universe, is a gift. 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. This simple act, a $2.50 Why is gifting a model worth exploring?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. It’s a two-hour workshop to be held at the university and space is limited— go here to register. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I have been doing a seminar called "Ten Steps to Web2.0"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Collections are not obvious or universally understood: In this decade, the word interpretation was super fancy and important. Where will it go in the next?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. So how about it? Ready for a stranger April?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

As Kris Morrisey (University of Washington) commented in the opening session, there has been a shift in museums, especially science museums, from focusing on "public understanding of" to "public engagement with" museum content. Tags: participatory museum. More on what that could mean and how it can happen in the weeks ahead.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

But the issues these stories bring up around willingness to "hear" and "engage" are universal. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. Tags: web2.0 You have to be honest about what kinds of relationships you are willing to take on. marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Of course, there's no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage. I wouldn't be the person I am today, one who is genuinely interested in others' opinions and jumps into participatory museum experiences, if not for my time on the museum floor in the magic vest. What's your magic vest?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

Of course, the corollary to the personal is to try to ask questions that are universal and do not leave anyone out because of cultural bias etc. Tags: participatory museum usercontent inclusion. It just requires different linkages. H ard to do, important to consider. A leading voice in declarative labels can hide. All of you.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Even the training of museum professionals has gotten more academic with the explosion of university-based graduate programs. University people also care about learning, even if they execute it in traditional ways. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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