Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. The magic isn't by design.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Here are four surprising things Oldenburg describes about third places—characteristics I think would be quite difficult for cultural institutions to assume: The primary attraction of a third place is the patrons, not the décor, the hosts, or the activities provided by management. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals.

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Museum Director Teen History 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Vary the activities.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. How might we reimagine our goals so they aren’t trapped by old power values and/or culture? Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. How and why did Object Stories come to be? So what did you do next?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them. For years, I’ve been associated with the idea of “visitor participation.”

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 93

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Second Life 21

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” The report concludes that campaigns that partnered with self-organized networks of people with clear goals and targets made an impact far beyond their level of resourcing—meaning they growthhacked their mission with people power. “Old power works like a currency.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. That is my goal, is for you to have a few actionable takeaways. What are some of your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it. Today, people increasingly expect to actively shape or create many aspects of their lives. It downloads, and it captures. New power operates differently, like a current. It is made by many. It uploads, and it distributes.

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Collaboration Social Model Channel 118

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? Jim is the author and he is so brilliant and addresses the subject with such clarity and authority that we had a lot of trust in his sense of the structure of the book.

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Help Museum eBook Project 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The ask is clear, the activity is compelling, and the display of contributions is simple and inspires greater participation. Let's look at how each of these aspects--the ask, the activity, and the display--contribute to the overall success of the project. The activity is compelling. design participatory museum usercontent.

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Project Museum Artist Map 38

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

They are active and awesome. Learning is the product of the activity of learners." Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. What's your goal?

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