Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. We've continued to do this for future exhibitions.

Participatory 51

Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

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. The result is that people get turned off, cynical, and leave.

Participatory 51

Participatory Process Open Proposal 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For those who can''t see the image, the card reads: When I first saw the "pastports" I didn''t really understand, but after reading what people wrote in them I felt an overwhelming connection to all the words of so many random people. Each prompt was tied to a different artwork in the exhibition. Some people say it with a poem.

Participatory 45

Participatory Museum History Arts 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Have people share why they chose or rejected certain items. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

Online 115

Online Participatory Technique Method 115

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. People were spending a long time working on them. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

Participatory 52

Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. Our current exhibition is about why people collect things. One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

Participatory 39

Participatory Difference Analysis Museum 39

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. People like participating, we take them seriously, and they take us seriously. or maybe we need a different activity in there.

Museum 47

Museum Difference Examples Participatory 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is a guide about how to navigate and thrive in a connected world that has been increasingly been influenced and increasingly defined by two different forces, old and new power. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

Participatory 119

Participatory Leadership Model Skills 119

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

Participatory 44

Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

Participatory 27

Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. 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

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Innovating for People Handbook: Design Thinking Methods: A recipe book of human-centered design methods. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

Facilitation 86

Facilitation Skills System Change 86

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

Participatory 39

Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

Participatory 48

Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

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. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

Participatory 50

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. In Foot in the Door , the content is so wide-ranging that it was easy for people to talk about favorites. Yes, Foot in the Door draws lots of diverse people--both contributors and visitors.

Participatory 46

Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. What do we do when technology (or the people using the technology) do something unexpected?

Virtual 52

Virtual Track Student Participatory 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

Participatory 50

Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

I would guess that most people have no idea that this work is happening at zoos. We give people content and then we say, "you decide." It robs them of the opportunity to make a difference--and robs us of the opportunity for increased impact and change. I certainly didn''t. It devalues their potential contribution.

Action 46

Action People Conservancy Africa 46

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. Reflective Practice.

Facilitation 124

Facilitation Technique Chart Participatory 124

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

Participatory 44

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. What may be culturally-determined, however, is HOW people want to participate. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. For the most part, I discounted it.

Culture 49

Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You may ask, what’s so different about the potential of a person today? People want to spread ideas much more than they care about being card-carrying member of your organization. It is held by few… New power” – that is, the power that is driving social change today — “operates differently, like a current.

People 25

People Structure Influence Voice 25

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

Participatory 34

Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Well actually, this post is about the people who participated at the highest level of engagement.

Participatory 32

Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going to completely disappear with the ball drop—meaning New Year’s Eve celebrations will have to look a little different this year. Virtual events have become the norm for so many of us this year so why should it be any different during the holiday season? Virtual Tasting. Virtual Game Night.

Virtual 98

Virtual Ideas Game Classes 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I talked with Tiffany, and also with Hazel Markus and Alanna Connor, Stanford social psychologists who recently co-authored a pretty fascinating pop-science book about understanding cultural difference. While it is not easy to ask directly "what do you think about XX people?" But how do we know whether these efforts are working?

Measure 47

Measure Arts People Museum 47

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Forum One, and among the mission-driven organizations we work with, I sense that more people understand that accessibility isn’t a box to check, but rather an integrated part of project design and delivery. Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. We can’t connect. Focus on content.

Accessibility 78

Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 78

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. As the grants manager, you probably have a good understanding of where different applications are in the process.

Grant 78

Grant Software Management Application 78

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM.

Measure 52

Measure Arizona Create Participatory 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. During 2020, I keenly missed the energy of being in the room with people. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Technique Facilitation 148

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

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. We imagined an cart at the farmer’s markets where people could record stories. You can come alone or with up to three people.

Museum 43

Museum Story Project Design 43

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? They are frequently about real people's stories. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

Museum 29

Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

Philanthropy 77

Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 77

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Engaging new people. Engaging more diverse people. Engaging people actively in the arts. Quality Shakespearian theater is different from quality contemporary dance. Here, in no particular order, are ten different kinds of quality in arts experiences: AESTHETIC: is it beautiful? RELEVANT: can people relate to it?

Participatory 55

Participatory Museum Arts Culture 55