Gaming – American Alliance of Museums

Stone Soup

By Elizabeth Merritt

We’ve reached another milestone in the celebration of the Center for the Future of Museum’s first decade of work: the 10th anniversary of the CFM Blog. I think that the first post on the blog (published February 11, 2009) has …
Chat with AndyBot at AAM 2018

By Elizabeth Merritt

In today’s guest post, Regina McDonald Russian, Digital Accessibility & UX Specialist, and Caroline Record, Creative Technologist at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Innovation Studio, primes you to visit the demonstration the Studio …
A New AR Invasion: Pokemon Go!

By Elizabeth Merritt

If you haven’t heard the buzz about Pokémon Go—the new augmented reality game taking the world by storm—well, you must have been locked in collections storage, with no internet access, for the last few weeks. This new game was born from …
Playful strategy development for museums

By Elizabeth Merritt

When I tell people I’m a futurist, I inevitably get some jokes about crystal balls and Tarot decks. Ironically, I actually HAVE a Tarot deck on my desk: one that I’ve hacked to create a “forecasting deck”—a clever tool to help people …
A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
How to Staff the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’ve been spouting off for years about how museums need to change the way they recruit, select and train staff. Why? Because Museums say they want a more diverse workforce, but the major pipeline for future professional staff—museum …
The (Authentically Fictional) Future of Education

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
Catching up with: Jane McGonigal, 2008 CFM Lecturer

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
A (not so secret) Conspiracy for Good

By Elizabeth Merritt

My tweet and Fbook post earlier this week about an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) based in London generated some interest, so here are more details. Conspiracy For Good is an “entertainment pilot” set up by creator of “Heroes” …
The Future of Reality

By Elizabeth Merritt

I highly recommend this talk, When Games Invade Real Life, by Jesse Schell . It’s worth taking half an hour to plonk yourself down with a soda and let him blow your mind. Museum-ers will find this lecture particularly heartening because, …