Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

It was co-designed by staff across the Ontario Science Centre, teen co-conspirators, and visitors via a series of ingenious brainstorming and making exercises developed by Julie Bowen and her brilliant team. Engaging in the participatory process also helped the staff transition to imagining their new roles in the eventual visitor experience.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each rose or carnation can include a gift card that tells a short story of how an extra $5 or $10 went to support domestic violence survivors or creating a safe space for LGBTQ teens. If structured properly like holiday gift wrapping, organizations can use VolunteerMatch to find support. Partner with a Local Florist. Email campaign.

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Ideas Fundraising Strategy Gift 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules). The irritating design?

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

Malls are safe, stimulating public spaces for casual social interactions. It’s ironic, when you think about the great pains that museums and libraries go to to create spaces that are “teen-positive,” that malls attract kids effortlessly with fluorescent lights and lousy music. Why do Americans love malls? They are open to everyone.

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Lesson Museum Music Classes 20

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

She's a transgender teen and internet star whose story and spirit have inspired millions of people , including her peers, to better understand what it means to be transgender in today's society. Rosalind Franklin. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings. After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

And it really came because I tend to be pissed off and I was pissed off that people were talking about community and inclusion but there was no evidence in their structure for it. He loves publicity. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce." We're making some progress.

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People Podcast Oakland Local 43

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. Do y’all know what that is? Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Tom compared public perception of racial intelligence to that of sexual orientation, commenting that over the last thirty years, the left has advocated to have racial intelligence categorized as nurture and sexual orientation categorized as nature. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away? Why aren't we developing our audiences?"

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20