tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post3747841588483894707..comments2024-03-27T05:04:39.476-07:00Comments on Museum 2.0: Advice: An Exhibition about Talking to StrangersNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-89207017420100262102009-06-18T08:25:00.862-07:002009-06-18T08:25:00.862-07:00Tim,
Creative theft is always encouraged... but I ...Tim,<br />Creative theft is always encouraged... but I imagine you can come up with another great idea as well. We started this process by <a href="http://strangemuse.pbworks.com/Focus-Exercise" rel="nofollow">brainstorming interesting questions and related visitor actions</a> and whittled down to advice as the best option. Maybe you want to start there with a group of friends and see where it takes you. <br /><br />If you do it, please document and share!Nina Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-45503425528788967002009-06-18T00:26:59.907-07:002009-06-18T00:26:59.907-07:00I'm inspired to try to create something of thi...I'm inspired to try to create something of this nature at Davis, but I don't want to steal the idea. I'll have to mull on this and see if I can get a team together.Tim K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08516398159177691351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-36765783106236051372009-06-16T20:36:02.571-07:002009-06-16T20:36:02.571-07:00$75 for the wall AND the advice booth!
so.much.fun...$75 for the wall AND the advice booth!<br />so.much.fun.Whitney Ford-Terryhttp://theemptyroom.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-35222635432103194752009-06-16T12:31:38.192-07:002009-06-16T12:31:38.192-07:00Huh, I wasn't in charge of procuring materials...Huh, I wasn't in charge of procuring materials so I don't know all the details of costs/how it broke down. I know one of the hopes had been to get an actual stall from the library to use as the writing space. I know that didn't work out, and I think the funds for the exhibit just ended up being directed elsewhere (The goal of the project was not primarily to experiment with exhibit design but rather allow students to experiment with the entire process of researching, creating, programing and promoting an exhibit; hence sometimes things like exhibit elements had to be scaled back to allow for other students to work on their aspects of the total project.) <br /><br />While searching for any sort of materials to explain the sex ed exhibit, I came across this wiki that was created after the fact to document the project (http://proteus.brown.edu/committees/487) Hopefully you can read it. You'll see the public programs are not documented--that's the part I worked on primarily and didn't realize that the wiki had been created, hence lack of content (always hard to document student projects after the fact). Anyway, the press release contains most of the pertinent info on the full scope of the project, including programs (which were well attended). Probably not enough information on the design, though. <br /><br />Here's a set on Flickr that the designer we hired used to document the project (http://www.flickr.com/photos/13590418@N07/sets/72157604741235489/) <br /><br /> As for the light pole thing, that was just a fussy curator who wouldn't let students install the artifact once they had procured it. Such is the dynamic, sometimes, of student exhibits. <br /><br />I wasn't involved in the creation of the Fox Point exhibit, but there were several "interactive" features built into it that I observed as a visitor. One was a table full of recipe cards of old Cape Verdean/Fox Point recipes that visitors could take with them. They could then cook and share the recipes with others. (I liked this idea and think in general more exhibits should have food elements!) Another was a map (duh) of the neighborhood thatt visitors could tag with their own memories of places in the exhibit. I should note it was not a digital map, though my use of the word tag would lead one to think it was. (Short description of Fox Point exhibit here: http://brown.edu/Research/JNBC/current_exhibitions.php)Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00048307146805983682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-75027959621669861212009-06-16T11:56:04.820-07:002009-06-16T11:56:04.820-07:00Hey Eric - it's all THEM! Seriously, I was in...Hey Eric - it's all THEM! Seriously, I was incredibly inspired by what these students made. I went into the course giving them about 50% odds on success. They made something amazing. Seeing the exhibit made me want to teach this course again, just so more people can make these kinds of things and we can continue sharing the related research with the field. <br /><br />And Leah, the bathroom wall cost only $75 in equipment at Home Depot! We too had lots of challenges with our exhibit space (no affixing anything to the walls!) but the team proved that with barely any time and money you really can make great stuff. I know we hear that a lot, but it's always nice to see an actual substantiation. I'd love to see more about your exhibit if there is content on the web to share.Nina Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-26993148836190322332009-06-16T11:43:25.879-07:002009-06-16T11:43:25.879-07:00beautiful and inspiring, nina, one of your best.beautiful and inspiring, nina, one of your best.Eric Siegelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10772512662420320861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-1645596310563563852009-06-16T10:34:47.384-07:002009-06-16T10:34:47.384-07:00For a student exhibit we created at Brown (public ...For a student exhibit we created at Brown (public humanities program) on the history of sex education (both formal and informal), we'd wanted to put up a feedback/interactive section that was a bathroom stall. This made sense since this is one of the major "places" where people learn about sex (especially at Brown, where there is a very strange culture of asking and answering sex-related questions on the bathroom stalls of the main library). Anyhoo, we couldn't fit it in on our budget and had to drop. Sad.<br /><br />For the public humanities student exhibit this past spring, on the Fox Point neighborhood students had the idea of putting up an electric pole (you know, the huge wooden kind where people tack announcements, lost/found, etc. normally in a neighborhood) and even managed to track an unused/discarded wooden pole from the electric company but then the curator in charge of the exhibit space said it would be impossible to install. Boo. <br /><br />In any case, I really like having feedback sections like those described above that make sense given the content of the exhibit in question. (Sex education and the bathroom stall and neighborhood and the light post, respectively.) Other examples you can think of where the design of the interactive feature builds on (or becomes) part of the content) itself.Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00048307146805983682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-57529721569233428952009-06-16T10:07:30.793-07:002009-06-16T10:07:30.793-07:00I wish I could take this course. My work with the ...I wish I could take this course. My work with the NY Historical Society and the Telling Lives booth really has awakened me to this kind of museum interaction.<br /><br />Nina, have you seen the APS Musuems Conversations with Darwin exhibit's post-it conversations:<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/apsmuseum/3614233089/in/set-72157617044486579/<br /><br />Chris LawrenceNew York Hall of Science Digital Learninghttp://twitter.com/nyscidlnoreply@blogger.com