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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

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I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Reimagining Museums with Latin America Leading the Way

Museum 2.0

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The sounds of Spanish and English comingled as 800 delegates argued, danced, and envisioned el museo reimaginado. They were coming together to celebrate and push forward. Designers creating space for nationwide reconciliation and transformation.

Museum 40
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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

Museum 2.0

Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. What design elements make buses more social than trains? And if someone is celebrating, he sings along. Today, we look at a familiar thing: urban mass transit.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

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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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Design thinking, agile, human-centered design: I like problems that can be solved in different ways, but I'm not always good at following systems.

Museum 21