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Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists
As I noted in TrendsWatch 2017, museums’ communities are being buffeted by the economic, cultural, and political fallout from current inequities in the justice system. Increasingly, museums are being called on to play a role in addressing … -
Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice
I’ve spent the past week designing some futurist exercises for a convening the Alliance is organizing at Detroit Institute of Arts, September 6-7. My colleagues and I are organizing Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?, an intense … -
Futurist Friday: Redemptive VR
Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination has released the first story in its Crowd Futures project. In this experiment in collaborative storytelling, authors and illustrators will invite members of an … -
Leveling the Playing Field at Sugar Hill
I fell in love with the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling back in 2014, when I read that Broadway Housing Communities’ brief to architect David Adjaye for this affordable housing project included a preschool AND … -
TrendsWatch 2018: Our Bright Future
Check it out! The first sections of TrendsWatch 2018 are now up on the Alliance website. This year, in honor of CFM’s 10th anniversary, I’m putting together a Scenario Edition of the report designed to help organizations “futureproof” … -
Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
This is the third in a series of posts publicizing Aroha Philanthropy’s call for proposals for Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums, funding the development and implementation of high quality, intensive arts learning opportunities for active … -
Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum
The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. Today’s guest post is by Sonnet Takahisa, … -
Net Neutrality Matters to Museums
In future-speak, a “disruptive event” is one that significantly changes the world for good or ill. Evaluating the ripple effects of such events is an important part of strategic foresight. For today’s guest post, I invited Blaire … -
Futurist Friday: Argumentative AI
In TrendsWatch 2017 I explored the implications of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) for society and for museums. Museums are already using AI to converse with visitors, and give voice to works of art. I’ve … -
Benchmarking Inclusivity
As the Alliance’s designated futurist, I’m often asked by journalists to comment on how this or that museum practice has changed over time. I’m often embarrassed (and frustrated) to admit I don’t know. It’s hard to track trends in museum …
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