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Radical futures – new realities
The future is too big a place to explore alone, so I am always delighted to share the work of other groups and individuals peering ahead into the Cone of Plausibility. Today on the Blog Sharon Heal, director of the UK Museums … -
Museums as 21st Century Databases
In August, Jeff Inscho blogged for CFM about the launch of the Carnegie Museums’ new Innovation Studio at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. This week his colleague David Newbury, who leads development on the Art Tracks project for Carnegie … -
Shaping the Future of Learning
Back in 2007, when I started writing CFM’s business plan, I looked for other futures-oriented organizations to adopt as models for our work. One of the first I came across is KnowledgeWorks, a nonprofit dedicated to exploring and helping … -
A New Museum in NYC: Climate Change Museum
While I spend most of my time scanning for change taking place in society writ large, rather than trends in museum practice per se, I do keep an eye open for new museums. Why and how do museums arise (especially in these financially … -
Trending Now: Museum Schools Part II
This week we followed up with LaneyTillner to learn more about her work with the John Early Museum Magnet Middle Prep–a museum school where she volunteers as a consultant. Laney is a graduate student in Public History (with … -
Trending Now: “Museum Schools”
If you attended the CFM session on the future of education at the annual meeting in Atlanta last year, you may remember the lines that stretched up the aisle as folks waited to talk to Katherine Kelbaugh, founder of the Museum School in … -
Futurist Friday: The Sound of Color
Meet Neil Harbisson. He is one of the 1 in 30,000 or so people born each year with a form of complete colorblindness. You might think of Neil as having a disability–one that impairs, for example, his ability to experience art.But … -
Revisiting the Future of Museums in the New Gilded Age
I recently reread a 2011 post by my former colleague Erik Ledbetter on the effect the “New Gilded Age” may have on museums. He wrote “The decline of the middle class and the reemergence of a true American plutocracy will … -
Why are we locking our data away from the public?
When I was researching TrendWatch2015 I sent out a call for examples of how museums struggle with the trend towards “openness” when it threatens traditional ways we have shared (or not shared) our data. Chris Norris, in the Division of … -
Monday Musing: A Radical Proposal on Student Debt
Student debt is a huge issue in our field, especially for emerging museum professionals. So this article caught my attention last week: No more student loans? Purdue University proposes selling shares of students’ future income. Purdue is …
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