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Introducing TrendsWatch 2019
The Alliance’s annual forecasting report is now available! The new edition of TrendsWatch explores truth and trust, decolonization, blockchain, homelessness and housing insecurity, and self-care. Visit the TrendsWatch 2019 landing page to … -
TrendsWatch 2019 Executive Summary
TrendsWatch 2019 is available as a PDF download Download the executive summary for freeMuseums and Trust: video and discussion guide: $50 Full PDF Download: Free to members ($10 for non-members) Purchase a print copy: $15.00 Each edition … -
Introducing our Aroha Fellow for Museums & Creative Aging
I am pleased to announce that, with support from Aroha Philanthropies, the Alliance is launching an initiative to explore how museums can engage with the rapidly-growing field of creative aging. Our new Aroha Fellow for Museums and … -
Backcasting: Or, how to apply 20:20 hindsight to museum planning
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass In today’s post, I’m going to introduce you to backcasting, a planning method that helps people … -
What Museums Can Learn from Amanda Palmer
On the way to New Zealand in the spring of 2016, I started reading Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. I thought of it as “me time” reading, and as such it was relegated to snippets of time before bed. When I finished the book, though, I … -
Your Guide to the Future at AAM 2019
With the Early Bird Registration deadline approaching quickly (Monday, March 4) I’m sharing my futurist picks for the Alliance’s 2019 annual meeting. Save some $$ by snagging the early bird rate, and use this post to jump start your … -
Introducing our 2019 CFM Foresight Scholar
I’m pleased to announce that our inaugural foresight scholarship has been awarded to Terrance Hunter, program manager at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida. Since receiving his B.A. in Educational Studies from … -
Stone Soup
We’ve reached another milestone in the celebration of the Center for the Future of Museum’s first decade of work: the 10th anniversary of the CFM Blog. I think that the first post on the blog (published February 11, 2009) has … -
Futuring in New Orleans: Registration Now Open!
I’ll be giving a workshop at the AAM annual meeting in New Orleans where I’ll share some foresight activities you can use to enliven your own institutional planning. The workshop will run from 1 to 4 pm on the final day of the … -
Announcing the Alliance Scholarship for Strategic Foresight
The first item on my wish list for the second decade of the Center for the Future of Museums is: “more museum futurists.” By which I mean, people who appreciate the importance of strategic foresight, and have whatever formal training they …
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