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.

Issue 86

Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 86

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior. Or, so I thought.

Participatory 40

Participatory Project Library Netherlands 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion'

Participatory 51

Participatory Process Open Proposal 51

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.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way.

Museum 43

Museum Story Project Design 43

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. It’s not a way to design—it’s simply design. This takes our approach out of a project-by-project mindset, and also challenges us to look internally. We can’t contribute.

Accessibility 74

Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 74

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory.

Participatory 27

Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

Learning 93

Learning Pakistan Haiti Facilitation 93

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

Participatory 51

Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. This isn't even participatory. People will talk about what they are writing or making.

Design 45

Design Participatory Learning Instruction 45

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. HUMANS ARE THE BEST AGENTS OF PARTICIPATION When I wrote the book, I was coming from the perspective of an exhibit designer. Those people are driven not by the design precept of participation. Humans empower each other. Invite each other in.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But as a creative type who has recently taken on an executive role, I've been fascinated, shocked even, to learn that the folks in the development department have been singing the relationship chorus for so long. Anyone who has worked in fundraising has likely heard these missives again and again. On the one hand, this is awesome.

Participatory 39

Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. In this post, Ken shares some surprising lessons learned so far. An official-looking decal for the “GISKIN ANOMALY SURVEY PROJECT” appeared on a window in the park. What are the lessons learned?

Lesson 49

Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always benefited from learning from colleagues who do nonprofit technology training and capacity but often we come from the same perspective. Going forward the MobLab will be working collaboratively with capacity builders to further define this challenge and pilot solutions and new projects.

Global 93

Global Network Change Create 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 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. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? You see the overall value of the project.

Participatory 50

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone.

Museum 20

Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Rwanda Social Media Train Training 116

Candid

JULY 5, 2022

1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. Here are some highlights from what we learned, followed by more in-depth analysis: . Every January, Candid surveys large U.S.

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Foundation Giving Change Survey 95

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. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? You see the overall value of the project.

Participatory 44

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Any many more.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Participatory 124

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

If you design interactives for kids, adults recognize that the experience is not for them, and they don't engage. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. People of all ages are sensitive to the messages that design sends. The colors are muted.

Interaction 47

Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Yesterday, I learned about the Silk Mill, a British historic site that is going through a dramatic community-driven reinvention. In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. It has an incredible story.

Museum 53

Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

EDUCATIONAL: can people learn from it? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? A community-based exhibition, full of life but rife with amateur design and poor editing. High participatory quality, low technical quality. Define what quality means for your goals, for your project, for your institution.

Participatory 55

Participatory Museum Arts Culture 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

Technique 50

Technique Question Design Participatory 50

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • Presentation. Technology cards.

Impact 123

Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. The Festival is one moment in a decade-long project to redesign Market Street.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Vietnam 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

Network 95

Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn? This project wove together many different participatory threads. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

Issue 45

Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

Global 97

Global Network Participatory Netsquared 97

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

Participatory 20

Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Participatory Museum Process Amazon 33

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. That's why I asked.

Technique 52

Technique Question Design Develop 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." 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? There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 People talk.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20