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Ethics Smackdown: A Preview of the Future?
I returned from the Alliance annual meeting in Baltimore to find my scanning feeds clogged with a spate of articles about the threat of the state-appointed emergency manager selling collections from the Detroit Institute of Arts to help … -
Relentlessly Social at the Annual Meeting
Guzel duChateau, the Alliance’s New Media Manager, dishes on how we are going social in Baltimore. This year the Alliance is doing something new at the Baltimore Annual Meeting. For the length of the conference we’re running a Social … -
Earn Your Future Traveler Badge in Baltimore
Ready for the road to the Alliance annual meeting? Podcastsloaded for the journey? Plane/train readingall picked out? One last thing–take a minute to learn about a new way to share some of the great stuff you are going to hear, and … -
Futurist Friday: Stranger than Fiction
Looking for content to listen to on the way to the Alliance annual meeting? Slate magazine recently launched a six episode podcast–“Stranger than Fiction.” Each week, Tim Wu, a Future Tense Fellow at the New American … -
On Objects, and Storytelling
Rob Walker The theme for this year’s annual meeting is Storytelling, and we’ve recruited Rob Walker, co-designer of the Significant Objects project, as a thought leader to help us explore how stories add tangible value to the … -
Your Guide to the Future at the 2013 Alliance Annual Meeting
Once again, I’m sharing a selection of futurist picks for the upcoming Alliance annual meeting. The advance registration deadline is April 26, so if you are not signed up yet, jump online! First, an overview of what CFM is up to in … -
Crowdsourcing the Annual Meeting Stage Two: Get Out the Vote
The Alliance is trying a lot of new things this year, sometimes using the principles of rapid prototypingto test new ideas and learn from our experiments. Those of you who sew may appreciate the fact that I think of some of these trials … -
CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
The call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their ideas and refine them with crowdsourced input. As I … -
Catching up with: Tracy Hicks, 2011 CFM Artist Interpreting the Future of Museums
Tracy discussing Helix: Scaffolding #21211 with attendees in Houston. Tracy Hicks was CFM’s 2011 Artist Exploring the Future of Museums. Installed in MuseumExpo at AAM’s 2011 annual meeting in Houston, Tracy’s sculpture and video … -
The (Authentically Fictional) Future of Education
Today’s guest post is by Ken Eklund, Writerguy, freelance game and experience designer. Ken creates “what if?” games and experiments, usually for museums, public media, or foundations. He works in what he calls “authentic fiction.” Ken’s …
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