Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

Participatory history programming. Over the past year, we've found it fairly easy to invent and sustain participatory art and craft projects. How do we deal with the blending of personal and institutional goals when it comes to contributing to efforts to improve the whole community? Working with teams through change.

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Conversation Museum Participatory Minneapolis 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action.

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Tunisia Reflection Social Media NGO 105

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. I''ve seen participatory artworks that lay untouched by visitors because the invitation to participate is not explicit enough. This is not a crime. His project, Is It Necessary?

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Museum Arts Artist Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

I don''t have the answer to how we can incorporate bridging across the various ways we work with intact and blended communities. There are some groups who we work with terrifically in their own space but who we rarely engage in ours. This leads to good bonding, but very little bridging.

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Social Museum Arts Program 55

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Please check out the full description and how to apply if you are interested.

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Museum Participatory Professional History 32

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. We tailor the programming blend to diverse ages, making sure no activity is just for kids or adults, no matter how much glue or fire is involved.

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Community Social Build Teen 42

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions.

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

In the history gallery, we have some blended props and artifacts, and it's rarely clear what is and is not ok to touch. This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. This was amazing.

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Museum Artist Denver Arts 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. I recommend you check out the wiki and evaluation report to dig deeply into the content.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Evaluation 31

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

While this post is not about museums, it tells the story of how a performance group developed participatory elements as an integral part of their show. We see the stage as a safe place for taking some participatory risks—we handpick volunteers who come up to dance and compete, and their terror, fame, and hijinks only last a few minutes.

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Contest Cleveland Participatory Audience 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

The “we” isn’t always staff; in most cases, our staff work with community partners in a participatory, co-creative model. FLEXIBLE OPTIMISM + HARD CRITERIA Real estate developers blend optimism and flexibility with clear-eyed assessment of what external conditions make a project go. We develop the ideas. We develop the projects.

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Develop Artist Project Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The USHMM pledge wall is notable for its blending of digital and analog technologies. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences. What physical rituals do you find useful when you are sharing a story or expressing an idea?

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Pledge Museum Digital DC 23

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

There are communities for everything online, and chances are you can find a group that offers a good blend of related interest and current non-visitation to your museum. Projects participatory museum. Are you a science center trying to prove you're not just for kids? Talk to the folks at Instructables. marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum Hosting Community Model 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

As noted above, the display of the beach artwork is blended well with the ask, so visitors can easily transition from spectator to participant. design participatory museum usercontent. In other words, it's a contributory project that is optimized to make participants happy. And that sets it apart.

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Project Museum Artist Map 38

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. There's a nice overlap to be found here blending the traits of Oldenburg’s third place with the mission of the institution. That's the sort of a "fourth place" model that LAMs want to shoot for. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30