Showing posts with label creative placemaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative placemaking. Show all posts
Monday, November 12, 2018

How Hello Museum Builds Intimate Community in one of the Biggest Cities in the World

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When I tell stories about how the MAH builds community, I emphasize the importance of deep partnerships and relationship-building. We conn...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

This is What the Participatory Museum Sounds Like

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It's late in the afternoon. I'm cranking away on a grant proposal, when suddenly, a classical rendition of "All the Single La...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future . This small, startup cultural projec...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Why We Moved the Abbott Square Opening - A Mistake, a Tough Call, & a Pivot: Introducing Abbott Square, Bonus Post

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Excited to open... but not quite yet. This is the eleventh in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Ask Me Anything about our Expansion... and Enjoy All the Posts in the Abbott Square Series

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We’re just weeks away from opening  Abbott Square  to the public here in Santa Cruz, CA. Over the past ten weeks, I’ve written about some ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

What's More Inclusive: Food or Art? Introducing Abbott Square, Part 10

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This is the tenth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new...
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

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This is the ninth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square Part 6: Two Prioritization Techniques We Used to Negotiate a Great Lease

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This is the sixth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new c...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square Part 5: What a Board is For

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This is the fifth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square Part 4: The Most Important Question to Ask in a Capital Campaign

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This is the fourth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of  Abbott Square , a new ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square Part 3: Community Participation Builds a Community Plaza

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This is the third in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of  Abbott Square , a new cre...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square Part 2: Why We're Expanding in Public Space - and Why You Should Consider It Too

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This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Squa...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Introducing Abbott Square: A Multi-Part Series on the MAH's Expansion into Creative Public Space

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I love the sound of jackhammers in the morning. My organization, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History  (MAH), is in the home stret...
Monday, October 10, 2016

What Does a Great Distributed Digital Museum Experience Look Like?

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Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

What Happens When a Viral Participatory Project is Too Successful? Diagnosing the Power of the Love Locks

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Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Setting Your Mission Free in the Wild

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Where are you most able to execute your mission: inside your facility, or outside of it? There are a lot of reasons we focus on work ins...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

A City and an Art Center Design the Future: Reflections on the Market Street Prototyping Festival

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"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago....
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. It exists. It thrives. In ...