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CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
The call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their ideas and refine them with crowdsourced input. As I … -
Catching up with: Tracy Hicks, 2011 CFM Artist Interpreting the Future of Museums
Tracy discussing Helix: Scaffolding #21211 with attendees in Houston. Tracy Hicks was CFM’s 2011 Artist Exploring the Future of Museums. Installed in MuseumExpo at AAM’s 2011 annual meeting in Houston, Tracy’s sculpture and video … -
Shhhhhh… it’s a surpise!
The National Museum of American History has been exploring the American Experience through the study of American food and foodways for the past 15 years through its Food and Wine History project. A signature object in the museum’s … -
The (Authentically Fictional) Future of Education
Today’s guest post is by Ken Eklund, Writerguy, freelance game and experience designer. Ken creates “what if?” games and experiments, usually for museums, public media, or foundations. He works in what he calls “authentic fiction.” Ken’s … -
The Strength of Diversity
“No matter what business you are in, most of the smart people work for someone else.” –Joy’s Law I see many people I work with having to make hard choices about what conference(s) to go to this year and which professional memberships to … -
Catching up with: Jane McGonigal, 2008 CFM Lecturer
This the first in a series of updates on various interesting folk you have been introduced to through CFM lectures or our the “artists interpreting the future of museums” installations at the AAM annual meeting. The fabulous … -
Futurist Friday: The Rosetta Project
Pop Quiz. Q #1: How long do you want your museum’s collections to last? r50 years r100 years r 500 years r1000 years r > 1000 years Q #2: what is your museum doing to meet that goal? (Use the comment section, below, if you want … -
The Future of Ethics: Living Collections and the “Ambassadors for Their Species” Concept
Today’s guest post is by Colleen Dilenschneider, director of digital engagement at the predictive intelligence company, IMPACTS Research. I highly recommend Know Your Own Bone, where Colleen blogs about creative online engagement and new … -
On Stories, and Authenticity
I just got my copy of the new book Significant Objects documenting a fascinating project exploring the relationship between objects, stories and value. Synopsis: Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker collected inexpensive, tag-sale objects (e.g., a … -
Crowdsourcing the AAM Annual Meeting
Ever wish you had a voice in running the AAM’s annual meeting? Now you do. AAM has opened up the session proposal process to crowdsourced input. You can use the new site to submit a draft session proposal for input from your peers, and to …
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