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 Arts Blackboard 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They were planning a wall mural for our classroom. These are both busy people, and while they are very artistic, neither is a crack drawer. It turned into a pretty wild evening in the classroom, filled with, "Whoa! A participatory project is one in which visitors/users can actively contribute to make the institution better.

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Participatory Help Classroom Active 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists.

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Museum Interaction Participatory Award 35

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be.

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History Story Indiana Pennsylvania 26

The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

So the meeting has become more participatory. You’re not in some classroom learning. I asked, “Why don’t you have a button that just lets me pay an artist on Spotify and your whole problem with musicians goes away?” Some idea that you were never going to have happens because of serendipity in the office. That’s not YC.

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Generation Problem Reddit Money 83

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20