Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. Smaller, less marquee institutions may face problems going forward. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now. We have some mutual understanding and trust.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." But an interesting problem arises when a participatory platform feels unresponsive, and users don't feel that their contributions are being respected or valued. The answer (for me) is both.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. There is lots of room for new voices online. Share your ideas.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. Anika Rahman is a Bangladeshi-American lawyer and prominent voice in the ecofeminism movement.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone Artist 133

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

The room was suddenly and incredibly buzzing with hundreds of voices, hundreds of people giving each other ideas. I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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Goal Fundraising Help Africa 306

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. The biggest problem is the sharpies running out; visitors pound them into the walls, and they have to be replaced every two weeks. We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Teen docents are more serious than adults because they want to be treated like professionals. Adam advocated that museums should focus on cultivating a strong voice rather than giving up to the clutter and dilution of the town square. These days, I spend a lot of time working on new models for both framework and sensibility.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42