Dream Big: the Alliance in an Age of Scale
I want to share with you the Alliance’s vision for how museums could play a major role in filling the need for high-quality, equitable early childhood education in the US. Back in June I blogged about the MacArthur Foundation’s …
Monday Musing: Well well
To file under Financial Sustainability, subheading “Potential New Income Streams”:I just finished reading an article in Fast Company on the surge in “wellness tourism,” which is now a $563 billion global industry. …
Playing in the Museum Sandbox
Readers of CFM’s TrendsWatch reports and followers of this Blog will know of my fascination with the emerging business model of museums running co-working spaces. It’s such a genius use of museum resources (staff expertise, visitors, …
FutureProofing Natural History Collections
When the Alliance chose financial sustainability as one of three areas of focus for our new strategic plan, I gravitated to one of the hardest challenges of all: how can we help create financially sustainable models for supporting …
Monday Musing: the future of philanthropy
I included an essay by David Callahan in last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums because I was struck by his projections of how government budget cuts may promote the rise of “crisis …
The Future of Museums (According to One Woman)
I was delighted to be interviewed for an issue of MISC Journal devoted to The Future According to Women. As the introduction notes, “The future we read about is made up of recycled bits of interviews curated from the minds of a few great …
Design Briefs: Art Museum as Innovation Incubator
One of the themes explored in Trendswatch 2014 is the rise of social entrepreneurship—the practice of linking profitable business models with socially beneficial outcomes. In the report, I pointed to the New Museum’s incubator space as an …
Futurist Friday: Inventing the Edge-y Workplace
One of the themes I explore in TrendsWatch 2016 is the way cultural, economic and technological forces rapidly transforming the way we work. Our infrastructure, for the most part, hasn’t caught up. Here’s one workplace that …
Futurist Friday: Marie Kondo, meet Brad the Toaster
I just listened to an NPR interview with Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo, talking about her new book “Spark Joy.” Her approach to simplifying and organizing life has taken the US by storm. (How popular is she? Her video …
Monday Musing: Social Impact Bonds
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 …
