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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. .” Here’s a quick video.
Museum 2.0
JULY 9, 2009
The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. Theoretically, you could take the idea of writing imaginative labels and offer that as an activity anywhere in the museum. It's available, but it's not the point of the whole exercise.
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Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 3, 2019
I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. 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.
Museum 2.0
JULY 10, 2018
but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. The end of an event is one of those moments when the host has to actively practice leadership (and often abdicates). It takes courage to assume that power.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. There will be discussions, workshops, immersive activities, and plenty of time to relax and seduce the creative genius inside you. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 2, 2008
blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 Institutions tying their online and onsite activities, as the Ontario Science Centre did when it hosted a YouTube meetup , or the Smithsonian American Art Museum did when they developed an alternate reality game.
Museum 2.0
JULY 3, 2008
I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.
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