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Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience
I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of the cultural and technological trends CFM is … -
Yarnbombing Museums: Blow the Doors Down
Today’s guest post is by Streetcolor, a knitter and yarnbomber who has blogged for CFM before about the experience of creating art outside a museum’s authority. Now Streetcolor blogs about the experience of being invited inside… Ten … -
Some Notes on the Future of History Museums: Part II
This is the second installment of Phil Katz’s report from the recent joint meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and National Council on Public History (NCPH). You can catch up on part one here. While I was at the … -
Some Notes on the Future of History Museums
In today’s post Phil Katz, who directs AAM’s research programs and collaborates with me on CFM’s forecasting reports, shares some of the wealth of information he brought back from a recent professional meeting. Last month I spent a few … -
DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION: Curating Family Stories in The Digital Museum
Recently, reading EmcArts’ Audio Postcards documenting the 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund (CIF) awardees, this video caught my attention: “These guys may not know it,” I thought, “but they are creating a crowdsourced … -
Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century
One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of … -
Does a Museum Need Four Walls?
One theme featured in TrendsWatch 2012 is “Takin’ It to the Streets”—the rise of pop-up and mobile retail, cultural and social experiences. Throughout the year we will monitor how this trend is playing out in museums. Today’s guest post, … -
Planning A Phenomenon: The Benefits of Consistency
Readers of this blog may already be familiar with the Philbrook Museum of Art and its savvy use of social media, via this popular poston their Cat Cam. Today Jeff Martin, online communities manager for PMA, gives us an update on their … -
Experience Design & the Future of Third Place
Today’s post is by futurist Garry Golden, who frequently collaborates with me on CFM projects. Garry is co-author of Tomorrow in the Golden State: Museums and the Future of California, and is currently the lead instructor for the … -
FLUX | AAM – CFM
This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent projects was conducting research on wine and design …
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