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

JUNE 18, 2014

People at work with the games running in the background on their computers. If you are reading this outside the United States, this sounds ridiculously basic. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game. And for the first time in my adult life as an American, that seems significant. Constant radio coverage.

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Arts Build United States Audience 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. This sounds risky to institutions like museums, where we want to design the experience through exhibits and architecture, not interpersonal exchanges.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. All motivation to play comes from the players themselves, since it's not clear where the game is going or what the point is. The game website is clear.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

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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Museum History Netherlands Create 36

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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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

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. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. design participatory museum.

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Profile Audience Participatory Tools 26

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I'm imagining a game where visitors are encouraged to approach each other and get recommendations for what to see (functionally what Bambi and I did). 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. This is the holy grail for me.

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby. Facilitator bits.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

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. Gifting is a powerful game mechanic. OK, so gifting sounds good. Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

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. It's like an organizational game of madlibs. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. It's also a reason that people will game with strangers; in that case, the games' rules form the partial barrier that facilitates social interaction. You'd have to do it face to face.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. Sounds good? We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Imagine making and playing together. Registration for C2 will close at the end of April.

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. Steve has a deep, fake “god” voice, which makes him sound both benevolent and like someone you want to please. They construct wild performances in everyday settings, invite regular people to participate, and document their work well.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Who is going to create and lead this place?

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. And yet these bar games have something that few museum adult programs offer: complete focus on the audience/participants, not the leader/speaker. It's fine to drop in and out of the game. It's reasonable to start a side conversation.

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Museum Lecture Denver San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Signtific game does this virtually by encouraging players to respond to each other by "following up" on other players' entries. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

To some people, these events may sound like losers. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Projects participatory museum. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). Lots of people come in for free to party and ignore the exhibits? I don't think so.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

It sounds as if Mr. Sametz is frantically casing city streets with a heat-seeking metal detector, on the hunt for a miscellaneous batch of confused folks whom he can stun into "connection." We have a pool table, shuffle board, juke box and have been known to have very loud dice games. See the link to the left. And a final statement.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

On the web, such socializing can happen around games (MMOs), shopping (Amazon discussions), trip planning (TripAdvisor), music or book collections ( Librarything ). Ideas design participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. I've been thinking about what, of all this 2.0 stuff, is most exciting to me. the list goes on.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Captivate 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. At any time, there were two facilitators in the exhibit--one for the advice booth, and the other for the buttons.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31