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Channel: Future Of Museums
No Walls, New Ways: Giving up the Building to Connect and Create
Hi, Nicole here! When the Floating Museum project came across our scanning feeds, Elizabeth Merritt and I were both excited by the concept. We wanted to know more about the project and how …
Provoking Proposals for Phoenix
The call for proposalsfor AAM’s 2018 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is open! I hope you are busy working on ideas you want to present in Phoenix next May. While I work on my own session …
From Brown vs. Board to Ferguson: Fostering Dialogue on Education, Incarceration, and Civil Rights
In researching the chapter on criminal justice reform for TrendsWatch 2017, I was impressed and heartened by the number of museums working with incarcerated populations. Today’s post is by …
AI and the Future of History
If you could chat with any historical figure, who would you choose?That question (or a variants such as “who would you invite to dinner”) is used as a pick-up line, debated on the web, even …
Bidding Farewell to CFM’s First Fellow
In 2015 Dr. Nicole Ivy joined the Alliance as our first CFM Fellow, supported by a Public Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Training …
The Portal: A Real-Time Conversation with People Forced to Flee Violence
In TrendsWatch 2017 I highlight Shared Studio’s Portals in the chapter on Empathy. These bi-directional video walls host virtual “face-to-face” conversations between people around the …
Wordless Wednesday: Programmable Para-parenting Pod
#babies #parenthood @m_hka @futuryst @dunagan23#Antwerp Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) …
Futurist Friday: Wearable Warnings
A creative use of wearable technology (also, genius performance art): Dominque Paul’s outfit makes pollution visible. #wearabletech @PICGreen #sustainabil…
Mapping Visitor Emotions to Make a Lasting Connection
Readers of the CFM Blog are also prime consumers of TrendsWatch, the Alliance’s annual forecasting report, which is available as a digital download and as a dynamic web version with …
To B Corps or not to B Corps—A Case Study
Some people think that because museums are nonprofits, they are not allowed to make money. Cue my mantra: nonprofit is a tax status, not a business strategy. A financially successful …
Companies with Benefits, Part 2: B Corps or not B Corps, that is the question
Tuesday I blogged about Benefit Corporations—a relatively new kind of “hybrid” legal structure for mission-driven for-profits. Today’s post is about B Corps—companies participating in a …
Inflatable Refugee
#Migration #Refugees @immigration_mv Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinter…