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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 … -
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum
This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of 32Bits, described the program, how it operates, and how … -
IRIS+ Part One: Designing + Coding a Museum AI
Museu do Amanhã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is one of a very small cadre of museums experimenting with chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI). (Well, that seems appropriate. They are the Museum of Tomorrow, after all!) Curator … -
Futurist Friday: Sustainable Civilization
Astrophysicist Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, is part of a group of researchers who are looking at climate change from an “astrobiological perspective.” Frank’s work is … -
Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging
Aroha Philanthropies has just released a call for proposals to museums interested in participating in its new Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums initiative. The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha and Lifetime Arts to usher a museum cohort …
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From Fragmentation to Alignment: Project Management in Museums
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How Museums Can Resist Censorship
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