Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. We created a "pastport" - a small booklet with evocative prompts related to identity and place. We created a simple wheel with open-ended questions about identity and place, setting it in a lounge area.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Grant writers are usually juggling multiple grant applications at the same time, so keeping those details in multiple places will save them time when having to verify how yours needs to be submitted, for example. With grant deadlines and processes, err on the side of repetition.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?" to "how?".

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. A Place Where You Can Speak Your Mind to That Foundation. Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Facebook discussion board here.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. The “checkbox” approach to accessibility rested on the idea that someone—usually a developer —managed accessibility and had the power to make a website accessible or not accessible. We can’t access information. We can’t connect. We can’t contribute.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Mission-driven organizations rely on Forum One to bring their ideas to life through designs that inform and inspire action. Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. Meet the design team.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Equity Throughout One of the main reasons for embracing datamaking is that it allows us to more clearly notice the places where equitable practices can be strengthened.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 105

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. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Some ideas for potential speakers and honorees: Local AAPI elected officials, such as city council members or state representatives. Some ideas for fundraising during the event include: Ticket sales – Charge admission for the event and communicate that proceeds support AAPI causes. Offer discounted tickets for community members.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

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. So, some of that is about power, about the idea that I might be able to influence something, as well as just being heard."

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2021

You will hear, see, and smell various ideas on a regular basis. At the same time, make sure you’re allowing a safe space for exploring new ideas while keeping the progress going. An emergent strategy is also participatory. Or maybe it’s just you and perhaps one other. Temptations abound. A few of my favorites are: .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They see this as directly related to the founding principles of the Mill as a place of experimentation, design, creating, and making. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious. Invested at all levels.

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Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Source: Share Your Ideas. 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 purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. Science has an answer.

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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.

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Museum Difference Examples Participatory 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

Shelley notes in her post the reason why they decided to explore FourSquare: As simply as I can put this, Foursquare is about place and identifying yourself through that. The use of FourSquare fits in with its other experiments with mobile and playing with the idea of place.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Looking outside our typical field of vision for new ideas is a natural part of our process, as it is for most creative folks. So while there was a lot we were nodding our heads along to in this article, there were also some places where we wanted to add thoughts of our own. . Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In a letter to their newborn daughter, Max, they announced that they were giving away 99% of their Facebook stock to make the world a better place. While we can’t say for sure that GivingTuesday was factor, yesterday’s most astounding act of generosity and giving was from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.

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Philanthropy Global Participatory New York 50

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. Our volunteers and staff--and the participants!--rocked.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. I heard fresh ideas, stories, and challenges in each room. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. We filled 8 flip chart pages with close to hundred ideas. The loudest clapping meant the idea was in the group of twenty. Next, I had participants review an inventory of ideas around self-care practices.

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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

JUNE 22, 2009

What do you do when you encounter a really great and unusual idea, one that you could implement but would require you to change some aspect of what you are currently doing? I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Do you jump in or do you shelve it?

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I get that they are places. But places are sites for people to congregate paid for by people and planned by people. It’s a place for people to explore. It’s a place for people to explore. A place to go see stuff was a common thread in general, both in museum-workers and non-museum workers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. Oh, yeah, some other people put some other ideas in the chat, too. And I think the reasons really have to do with the ideas that all of you are mentioning here. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Lost Childhoods exhibition is a platform for 100+ partners to share their stories, artwork, ideas, projects, volunteer opportunities, and events. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. This is the participatory platform model. They did it because the exhibition belonged to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

teams of kids have attended seminars (in Second Life) from UNICEF on world issues, and the kids are building exhibits with their ideas for solutions. The are people here from very different places. More here on the event. s possible through distance learning??? in a much more embodied way. s what we???re re involved with right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Needless to say, I’m sad about what is taking place in the region and disappointed that my trip to Tunisia has been rescheduled. ” Perspective of trainers and capacity builders of networked nonprofits and social media from other places in the world talked about importance of integrating peace building and non-violent approaches.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 105

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Elsewhere is at the top of my list of places I would most like to visit. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. risk participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences' We welcome that.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. Ideas inclusion institutional change relationships visitors' I''ve learned a lot from Irvine Foundation staff and partners directly. Core Museum 2.0

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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.

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