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Illustrations of the Future
The AAM annual meeting is often a little bit overwhelming. And exhausting. OK, it is always a bit overwhelming & exhausting. That being so, I was particularly pleased with this year’s CFM guest artists project. As I wrotebefore the … -
DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION: Curating Family Stories in The Digital Museum
Recently, reading EmcArts’ Audio Postcards documenting the 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund (CIF) awardees, this video caught my attention: “These guys may not know it,” I thought, “but they are creating a crowdsourced … -
Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century
One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of … -
Does a Museum Need Four Walls?
One theme featured in TrendsWatch 2012 is “Takin’ It to the Streets”—the rise of pop-up and mobile retail, cultural and social experiences. Throughout the year we will monitor how this trend is playing out in museums. Today’s guest post, … -
Report from #FutrChat
Last Thursday eighty-three futurists and museumers participated in #futrchat on Twitter, co-hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and CFM. The tweets flew fast and furious (over 600 of them!) as our sectors exchanged … -
Are Natural History Museums Ready to Become Superheroes?
Look at the tagline at the top of this page: “because museums can change the world.” I can make a credible argument that natural history museums have the greatest potential, among their brethren in art, history, science, to play global … -
Futurist Friday: Short Glimpses
Two very brief videos to fuel your futures-thinking. Project Glass presents a first-person view of a future in which locality-aware data is continually streamed into your line of sight—from the time you wake up for your morning coffee … -
Drawing a Picture of the Future
Stories of the future are all very well, but sometimes illustrations are better. Which is why I’m inviting you to join the Drawing Club at the AAM annual meeting Minneapolis, week after next. Catalyzed by local artists recruited by the … -
Museumers, meet Futurists; Futurists, Welcome to the World of Museums!
I have a new line on my resume—possibly the coolest one yet. I am now a proud member of the Association of Professional Futurists. In the spirit of CFM’s role as an über-connector for the museum field, I’ve ginned up a way to introduce you … -
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics
I’m suffering from a bad case of “be careful what you wish for.” The Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project that CFM has been running with the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University yielded such a huge number of …
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