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Towards a Green Future: Environment and Resource Sustainability in Museums
One of my stretch goals at CFM is helping to foster “a futurist in every museum.” To that end, I have been pleased to serve as an advisor to the California Association of Museums Leaders of the Future Program. That program has been the … -
Futurist Friday: Flocks of Autonomous Flying Drones
Whether or not Amazon overcomes the difficulties of instituting drone deliver service in the US, drones have a bright future with a variety of applications. They are being used to survey archaeological sites, escort children to the bus … -
Throwback Thursday: “myCulture” and crowdsourcing museum content
This Throwback post revisits a theme from CFM’s first forecasting paper. “myCulture” heralded a creative renaissance driven by a generation of young adults who want to loose their creative energies on shared cultural … -
Explore the Future of Food & Museums in Seattle
Jessica Harris Are you coming to the annual meeting in May? Bring a hearty appetite for some exciting ideas on museums & food! Culinary historian Jessica Harris, CFM’s 2011 lecturer for the “Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food and … -
Monday Musings: on the Corcoran
Reading the news about the Corcoran Gallery of Art last week made me very happy, if a little puzzled, too.For those of you who haven’t been following the story, a quick recap. The Corcoran is a private, nonprofit museum here in DC, … -
Futurist Friday: Visitor Analytics
Your Futurist Friday assignment is this very brief (1.58 min) video from Cisco about using Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) analytics to locate and track every wireless device in a venue. While the commentary in this piece is about … -
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences more compelling and rewarding. Today’s guest post … -
When Preschool IS the Museum
Michael Edson recently challenged museums to think about how we can help a billionlearners in this country. Some of that impact will be digital and online, through individual museum projects or platforms like Khan Academy. But our impact … -
Monday Musings: What Price Nonprofit?
Today’s brief musing was prompted by an article this past Saturday in the New York Times: It May be a Nonprofit Theater, but the Tickets Look For-ProfitIt lists the ways in which nonprofit theaters in New York are acting more and … -
Futurist Friday: Hyper-Reality
I’m happy to see that Keiichi Matsuda successfully funded his “Hyper-Reality” film series through a Kickstarter project. It looks like an awesome futurist project. This series of 5 minute films, set in Medellin, Columbia, …
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