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Monday Musings: What Could Disappear?
I’ve blogged beforeabout the importance of factoring climate trends into long term planning and risk assessment. Continued news of museums in New York and New Jersey coping with the aftermath of Frankenstorm Sandy, and the UK suffering … -
Guess Who Endorsed You! And Why Should You Care?
About two months ago I started to get emails with the subject line “so-and-so has endorsed you,” originating from LinkedIn “on behalf of” the person doing the endorsing. At first I thought it was some kind of scam/spam. It’s legit, though, … -
The Role of the Campus Museum in an Age of Distributed Education
The “future of the campus museum” discussion continues with this guest post by Rebecca Nagy, director of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors and President of … -
Will You Know Innovation When You See It?
Last week my virtual self gave a brief intro via Skype to Phelan Fretz’s session on Innovation at the NEMA meeting in Burlington, Vermont. Phelan (who is the executive director of the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington) … -
The Interdisciplinary Campus Museum
Last week I bloggedabout the newly released Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century report, produced by the Cultural Policy Center of the University of Chicago with the support of the Kress Foundation. Evidently, the report struck a chord … -
Olly Olly Oxen Free! A Call for Hidden Research
Image from the University of Melbourne Phil and I get calls all the time from people asking “do you know of a study on x?” “Where can I find numbers about y?” All too often, our answer is “we don’t know of any published research on that … -
The Future of the Campus Art Museum: Join the Conversation
The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago just released “Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century: a Conversation.” If you work at or with campus art museums, or art museums, or non-art campus museums, you should read it. Oh … -
Futurist Friday: Remixing the Future
Easy assignment this week: devote 3 minutes and 24 seconds to a lightning tour of future visions expressed in film, remixed by Eclectic Method. Phil found this video via the LIS (Library and Information Science) Blog, and a link in … -
What’s the Difference Between a Visionary and a Futurist?
That’s the great question a young woman posed to me when I spoke at Hollins Universitylast week. My off-the-cuff answer was that a visionary is trying to shape the world. It’s the job of a futurist to help visionaries figure out how to … -
Printing the Future
When I read that MakerBot was opening its first retail outlet, located in NYC, I sent a tweet-out looking for a volunteer to be CFM’s futurist-on-the-street. That is how I connected with Blaire Moskowitz, Business Development and Marketing …
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