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Thinking About Inclusive Museums in the UK
Hi, Nicole here! As part of my work as a Mellon/ACLS fellow with CFM, I’m focusing on a constellation of issues related to museums and labor, including pathways to museum employment; wage equity in the sector; workforce practices promoting … -
Museums and Migration
Mass migration, driven by conflict, oppression, political upheaval, climate change and economic distress, has been described as “the defining issue of this century.” As such, it is one of many critical issues that museums can address in … -
Monday Musing: Beyond Conformity & Compliance
Here’s an article I encourage you to read to start your week: Sir Ken Robinson: How to Create a Culture For Valuable Learning (Mind/Shift, KQED News). Sir Ken has been a major inspiration for my work on museums and the future of … -
Futurist Friday: Empathetic AI
Whenever a new technology starts to take off (drones, 3D printing, Virtual Reality), the initial breathless coverage in the press is inevitably followed by articles deriding the trivial applications of these advances. We’re deluged … -
Free your mind! Funky futures & transformative education
“If you free your mind, you free your relationship to time”—George Clinton, funky musician and Afrofuturist Vibrant (adjective): Full of energy and enthusiasm. Pulsating. Bright and Striking… Learning (noun): The acquisition of … -
Send Me to SxSW to Spread the Word about Museum Awesomeness
I need your help to create a future in which encounters like this don’t happen: At a convening of all sorts of important education types—foundation staff, teachers, policy makers—one of the participants turns to the chair of EdCom and … -
Monday Musing: unbiased wages
A few weeks ago I tweeted about a post by the estimable Vu Le in which he argued that “basing pay on salary history is a harmful, borderline-unethical practice that we need to abolish.” He points out that calibrating salary … -
Futurist Friday: Who Will You Care For? Who Will Care For You?
Many of my friends are members of the “sandwich generation”–caring both for children and for their own parents. That’s difficult enough right now, and as a new report from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) points … -
The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time
This is Nicole with a bit of field reporting about futurist work in practice. Last week, I traveled to Philadelphia, PA to visit the Community Futures Lab, a project of the Black Quantum Futurism collective. Co-founder Rasheedah Phillips … -
Museum People are the Best!
Dan and Marieke at the Renwick Galleryin Washington, DC One of my favorite museum podcasts—Museum People—just launched its second season with an episode profiling AAM’s own Laura Lott. In this series, produced by the New England …
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