• Futurist Friday: Sheep View

    This past April Durita Dahl Andreassen of Visit Faroe Islands launched a social media campaign to get Google to send it’s Street View cameras to the Islands (even though they don’t actually have many, you know, roads). Her …
  • Monday Musing: rethinking design at the opera

    I’m devoting my brief musing today to a story from the Harvard Business Review that I included in “Dispatches from the Future of Museums” last week. In case you missed it, please do read “What Design Thinking is …
  • Monday Musing: Prequel to a Museum

    Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 …
  • The Multi-dimensional Museum

    I was delighted to hear this story over the weekend on NPR, on how the Pacific Science Center opens early, one Saturday each month, to provide an environment tailored to the needs of visitors with autism. For this time, they turn down the …
  • Monday Musing: All the World’s a Museum

    Due to a technical glitch last week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums is coming out later today. When it does appear in your in-box, take a look at this article: Dubai To Add Art Museums In Metro Stations Gulf Business reports …

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