A Game for (Future) Good: FutureCoast
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The first trend CFM tackled, with the help of futurist and games-designer Dr. Jane McGonigal, was the rise of “gaming for good” and the potential for games-design to make museum experiences …
Improving the Future of Hiring
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Last week I blogged about the “unbiased hiring” process that we used to fill a recent CFM position here at AAM. Today I wanted to follow up with a few related thoughts sparked by …
Museums in a Driverless Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
How many people get to your museum by driving their own cars? When they arrive, where do they park? If you are designing a new museum, or a renovation, what parking structures are included …
Straight Up or with a Twist: Two Examples of how to Envision the Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The biggest challenge in preparing for the future is imagining what it will be like. One of the most important roles of futures studies is to help people write stories of the future that, …
A Self-care Practice: Spend Some Time in Utopia
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“Utopia is born of the hunger for something better, but it relies on hope as the engine for imagining such a future.” –Marge Piercy The news has been pretty bleak for the past 18 …
What type of future do you envision for P-12 education?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Would you like to see your ideas about the future of education shared far beyond your local museum or school? What current P-12 issues are important to you? What works and where are the …
AI and the Future of History
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
If you could chat with any historical figure, who would you choose? That question (or a variants such as “who would you invite to dinner”) is used as a pick-up line, debated on the web, …
9/11/2040: A Future Lesson About the Past
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, Sylvea here…..as we move into the last couple weeks of our Education Future Fiction Challenge I hope that many of you are still developing your submissions ;-). Not sure where to start? …
Future Proofing Museum Business Plans: Creating sustainable models for natural history research collections.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Last December, I co-taught a workshop in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s newly renovated …
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Futurism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, …
More on our Ford Fellow Search: the future of distributed work
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Did you go to work today? Did you go into the office? For much of the last century those two actions were synonymous. But now, for many Americans, the answers to these questions are …
Futurist Friday: Compiling a Summer Reading List
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Earlier this week I tweeted about the search by UCLA law professor Ted Parsons for reading/viewing to assign for his upcoming seminar “Law in Futurist Social Visions.” The course will use …