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Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists
As I noted in TrendsWatch 2017, museums’ communities are being buffeted by the economic, cultural, and political fallout from current inequities in the justice system. Increasingly, museums are being called on to play a role in addressing … -
Walk a Mile in my Shoes: Closing the Empathy Deficit
“There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit—the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us —the … -
Failure Failing Toward Success: The Ascendance Of Agile Design
“If you’re creating things, you’re doing things that have a high potential for failure, especially if you’re doing things that haven’t been done before. And you learn from those things…failure is another word for experience.”George Lucas … -
Reshaping The World: Migration, Refugees, And Forced Displacement
“Refugees and displacement are likely to become a defining issue of the 21st century.”Alexander Betts, director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Mass migration, driven by conflict, oppression, political upheaval, climate … -
Artificial Intelligence: The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Alan Kay, computer scientist Computer systems are … -
Let Justice Roll Down: The Next Horizon of Civil Rights
“It’s easy to imagine that a system like mass incarceration can’t be dismantled. The same was said about slavery, the same was said about Jim Crow. —Attorney and author Michelle Alexander President Barack Obama gave considerable attention …
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