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Stacking the Futurist Deck
I’m the first to admit it can be hard to catapult from dealing with today’s urgent problems to thinking about the long-term future. Fortunately, futurists have developed many tools to help guide organizations through the process of … -
What type of future do you envision for P-12 education?
Would you like to see your ideas about the future of education shared far beyond your local museum or school? What current P-12 issues are important to you? What works and where are the opportunities for change? Draft your story today and … -
Future Friday Fiction!: The Wax
This week, our Future Friday Fiction work is by Joe Tankersley, a futurist. His story is set in New Orleans and imagines a future where a VR enhanced music program is developed by a museum. Check out the other entries here and submit your … -
Museums and Fair Labor Practices
Fair wages, living wages, the CEO pay ratio, unpaid internships, short term contracts, unbiased hiring, outsourced work—labor issues are front and center in our field. TrendsWatch 2016 (which will come out at the end of this month) tackles … -
Museums & Employment: Casting a Wider Net
Diversifying the museum workforce is going to involve all players in the labor market rethinking traditional assumptions. In her January guest post (“One Graduate’s Job Search Story”) Sophie Stein encourages recent … -
Future Fiction Friday: It began with the bees.
Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Lisa Alleman, an educator at Lakewood Historical Society in Lakewood, OH. Check out the other entries here and submit your story! If you would … -
Lessons in Foresight
When I wooed the American Council of Learned Societies last year, proposing they assign CFM one of their public fellows, I promised that the Alliance would provide futurist training for the humanities post-doc that also matched our needs. … -
The Future of Websites
CFM is a “skunkworks” for the Alliance, as well as an idea lab for the field. Sometimes we test drive things that may (or may not) work to assess whether they are promising practices for the association as a whole. Case in point: our … -
Future Fiction Friday
Hi, this is Sylvea. I wanted to share a story from our Future Fiction Challenge…this one, by Sarah Jesse, is entitled “World Museum and Library Database.” Check out the other entries here and submit your story! If you would like tips from … -
Kentucky’s Jefferson Davis Dilemma
In a post last June I began to track how museums are invoked by protesters calling for the removal of monuments and symbols celebrating the Confederacy in particular, and America’s slave-holding past more generally. In the ensuing …
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