Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. Creative-problem solving on a small budget.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Challenge 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This was the main aim of this year’s summer exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Top 40: Countdown of Worcester’s Favourite Pictures. Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings.

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Museum Chart Picture Arts 23

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.”. I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It was a release valve that let people write crude things and draw silly pictures. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated. The bathroom wall was "anything goes" by design.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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. Something tells me this is not the business visioning workshop I anticipated.

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History Indiana Story Pennsylvania 26

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Together, these lessons paint the picture of a future museum or library: a safe, comfortable live venue for discourse about content. From the Web 2.0

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Museum Library Participatory Web 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

Send in your question, and it can be days before the artist or curator responds with an answer. It’s that overall picture that’s the most important. That being said, we get all kinds of questions — details in the works, about the artist, why the work is in the Museum, etc. ASK is much more real-time. It really runs the gamut.

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Museum Arts Interview Project 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch. Not every participatory process has to scream "look at me!"

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Participatory Process Museum Children 48

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Tags: design participatory museum.

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Participatory Project Library Tag 40

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing instruments, painting pictures, and cooking gourmet meals in record numbers. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. For example, one of the little participatory projects we're doing now is on the butterfly effect.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum Director History Culture 49