Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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. There wasn't one. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation. Whether you tick the ballot or not, the opportunity to do so opens up a conversation about what's good, what's bad, and what's art.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Hosted by a sound art collective, Ultra-red, the 2015 event promised "to investigate listening as a political activity and to interrogate the stakes of participation in neoliberalism." I imagined an academic conversation stuffed with arcane, impenetrable vocabulary. At first, I thought it was a joke.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. Buses don't employ drivers or operate on city streets to improve the comfort and participatory experience of riding.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

In museums (and zoos), we frequently stop the conversation with visitors when it comes to action--especially political action. This can sound disingenuous. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out' How can you invite them to participate alongside you to save species? But it''s true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 One way to get past this is to have staff use social media behind the firewall to harness the conversation about social media adoption.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

When the galleries are quiet, with my clipclop shoes the only sound, the museum feels dead. A place of community, conversation and connection — Scott Stulen (@middlewest) September 21, 2019 Many museum-workers talked about the community museums foster. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

When I tell people this in a presentation, it can sound vague or dubious. When I asked a few women about their conversations, they explained that some of the people in the photos looked like their grandparents, or were famous people they'd heard about. Tags: design participatory museum. Where would you like them to be?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Conversations about the tournament on the street. If you are reading this outside the United States, this sounds ridiculously basic. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In many cases, we ended up in long conversations with visitors, but that was always driven by their interest in telling us more about what they liked, why they were at the museum, etc. The cards are ok, but the people (and the conversations) are what matters. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Dial-A-Stranger is what it sounds like. They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers.

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Reflection Museum Podcast Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. When you hear other voices talking about race, you feel more comfortable joining or starting your own conversations.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. Honest conversations are the beginning of more equitable museums. This decade has begun the conversation about labor. Our staff is the way collections come alive.

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Museum Work Social Media Alternative 21

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. Sounds like great participation to me. Everyone's eyes on me, expecting something. I had no idea what to do. I didn't know how to open a meeting. I didn't know how hold power and share it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This conversion is really important and it's just the beginning. It sounds like this will make lobby membership sales a lot more complicated to pitch. It's true; this will extend the conversation in the lobby. A lot of our current members are excited about this and want to switch. Projects interview membership.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. Random passers-by got hooked and spent twenty minutes carefully reading each post-it, writing responses, creating chains of conversation and spin-off questions and pieces of advice.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

And then on April 29, the conversation really got rolling. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. This sounds obvious, but it's not as easy as it sounds. On March 22, they released the wiki. over email.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They prove that the conversation is two-way. They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. But in them, I wrote something personal which put me on a conversational level. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," it gets me excited.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. It's reasonable to start a side conversation. An office manager told us she never went to the microphone to pose a question at a lecture, because she assumed that everyone else in the room was an expert and she would sound like an idiot.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That sounds great. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And so it’s really powerful to be able to facilitate those conversations and then together, they could plan a project on how to help clarify what the expectations are at traffic stops. Steven: Yes. Will do it. Julie: Great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. That sounds like a horrible way to die.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

To form the basis for community, the comments should be publicly shared with other visitors so that they can present a dialogue, not a one-way conversation with the museum. This may sound strange, but Mini determined via brand monitoring that they had an extremely enthusiastic, Web 2.0-active

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits).

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

To some people, these events may sound like losers. I was amazed by the number of conversations I had when I arrived at FreelanceCamp that went something like this: Me: Have you lived in Santa Cruz for a long time? Projects participatory museum. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). That's not part of our mission!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia. This sounded appealing until I realized that he was not willing to acknowledge other non-scholarly authorities … which sounds authoritarian to me.

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