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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

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This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. In the meantime, here are some. Sometimes it is.

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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

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Is it participatory if the contributory experience was designed without her input? But the visitor experience of these exhibits isn't necessarily altered by the innovative process that created it. Do you Need Participatory Design for Participatory Experiences? A Crowd-Curated Exhibition ) from across the world. Not always.

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

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The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the museum experience? This is what I'd call visitors "controlling the experience."

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

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Here are a few design rules I use to think about what kinds of designed dialogue environments are right for different experience goals. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later. A lone "What do you think?"

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Sheroes in the Arts. But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Game-Changers.

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

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The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. The irritating design?

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