Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

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. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

Participatory 44

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

Active 98

Active Activism Activities Model 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

Strategy 99

Strategy Social Skype Remix 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. More here on the event.

Second Life 50

Second Life Participatory Life Discussion 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, I noted a discussion board in the "Nursery" gallery. For the Nursery discussion board, it's other adult visitors to the Children's Museum. Every adults who takes a child to a Children's Museum cares about his or her identity as a caregiver.

Museum 41

Museum Children Discussion Childhood 41

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

Resource 98

Resource Issue Philanthropy New Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Kids frequently suffer from tokenism.

Design 49

Design Children Participatory Museum 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

Participatory 33

Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

Participatory 26

Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. David is a current program supervisor for the CASA program in Lane County, whose mission it is to supply children in the child welfare system volunteer advocates.

Practice 98

Practice Effective Social Nonprofit 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

Classroom 22

Classroom Museum Children Model 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

Museum 47

Museum Difference Examples Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? Proper audiences were like docile children, seen and not heard.

Greece 51

Greece Arts Participatory Industry 51

Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Paying attention to concerns about the impact of COVID on mental health of children” . We are paying attention to issues of equity and social justice; participatory grantmaking; and streamlining applications and reporting.” . “We Virtual work and migration of work to home and/or transitory space. Disaster fund preparedness.” .

Foundation 105

Foundation Giving Change Survey 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

Museum 49

Museum Program Community Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

This has been bubbling in the back of my mind, but looking at nonprofits and adoption of social media tools or what I started to call the participatory nonprofit. but instead of learning for children, it's learning for adults. What Nancy's talking about is a shift in the use and tools.

Adopt 50

Adopt Slides Participatory Social Media 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other. Trust and love from our old friends.

Audience 47

Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

Museum 29

Museum Difference Participatory Arts 29

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. The cycle of intergenerational poverty is enormously complicated and extends across so many different facets of a family’s experience.

Intergenerational 52

Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Philanthropy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. and Catherine T.

Foundation 50

Foundation Digital Learning Literacy 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

As environmental educator David Sobel has written , "If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the Earth before we ask them to save it." When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act.

Story 47

Story Museum Participatory Project 47

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. She is a mentor coach with the Greater Phoenix Urban League Head Start, which strives to bring quality education to Phoenix’s preschool-aged children. Build relationships with the beneficiaries and cultivate true understanding through listening.

Program 52

Program Strategy Nonprofit Case Study 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day.

Community 43

Community Reflection Online Museum 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

Social 49

Social Teen Museum Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. The best children's and science museums are deeply community-interrelated, often in ways that are hard to discern from the exhibits when experiencing them casually.

Museum 41

Museum Support St. Louis Children 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. But my children still complain at times and tell me to close down the computer!

Develop 50

Develop Ghana Wiki Zambia 50

Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

Storytelling 73

Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 73

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. The organization was recruiting women who had spare time—which left out many of the younger, more diverse voices who had children, school, and multiple priorities. Once Natanja saw who wasn’t there, she could work with her team to fix it.

Voice 92

Voice Strategy Mississippi Philanthropy 92

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a video explaining do's and don'ts of the museum for children. This was amazing.

Museum 49

Museum Artist Arts Denver 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. How about break it down for younger children?" I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She did it anyway.)

Museum 45

Museum Arts Problem Design 45

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy?

Video 128

Video Nonprofit Question Process 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. The book also includes a wonderful chapter about how this approach to digital leadership transforms the organization itself. One of the case studies in the book includes Carolyn Miles from Save the Children.

Digital 50

Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users.

Slides 20

Slides Museum Participatory Children 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

Participatory 20

Participatory St. Louis Museum Interaction 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

Museum 52

Museum Job Ideas Project 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

Slides 22

Slides Museum Participatory San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unschooling" is an an educational theory that argues that people of all ages (including children) learn best when their work is self-directed--and that children are better at determining what and how they should learn than any accredited school or instructor. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching.

Museum 29

Museum Alternative Education Professional 29