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Exploring the Future Through the Museum of Banned Objects
One way futurists expand our thinking is through the creation of immersive scenarios: physical embodiments of possible futures. In one of my favorite examples, futurist Jake Dunagan installed “Mayor’s Office, 2061” in a former garage to … -
Futurist Friday: Critical Thinking
It’s time for CFM’s weekly micro-tutorial in strategic foresight! Today’s lesson: how to evaluate forecasts that “in the future…this or that will be true.” When you read (or view) a projection like this, … -
Free Copies of TrendsWatch at AAM2018
This year the Alliance Resource Center will feature an installation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center for the Future of Museums. In addition to an installation reviewing our decade of museum futuring, we will be giving away … -
Chat with AndyBot at AAM 2018
In today’s guest post, Regina McDonald Russian, Digital Accessibility & UX Specialist, and Caroline Record, Creative Technologist at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Innovation Studio, primes you to visit the demonstration the Studio … -
Futurist Friday: Chatting about Art with IBM Watson
Museum chatbots are a bit of an obsession of mine right now, as is artificial intelligence, so finding a project that combines these two technologies made my week. This story in AdWeek reports that IBM Watson (the program that famously … -
Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?
In a chapter titled “Capture the Flag: the struggle over representation and identity,” CFM’s TrendsWatch 2016 explored the growing pressure for museums to play a role in the detoxification of various symbols of oppression.” The … -
Engaging the System: Museums Working in the Incarceration System
Today’s preview of a session that will take place at #AAM2018 is contributed by Tramia Jackson, Program Associate, Methodology and Practice, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. You can scan all the sessions featured in CFM’s … -
Futurist Friday: urban delivery drones
This video from industrial design studio PriestmanGoode shows its vision for a fleet of urban delivery drones. As the designers point out, this solution to the “last mile” of delivery could relieve traffic congestion, and help … -
Tweetchat alert! Building on Museum 2040
I’m writing to invite you to contribute to our ongoing exploration of this future in a CFM tweetchat next Thursday, March 29, from 3 – 4 pm ET, hashtag #Museum2040. CFM’s most recent publication is the “future” issue of Museum magazine we … -
Made Any Great Mistakes Lately?
Today’s preview of a session at the upcoming AAM annual meeting is offered by Kathy Gustafson-Hilton, Creative Thinking Facilitator, Hands On! Studio. Made any mistakes lately? I know I have! Come on down and share yours, and what you …
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