Decolonizing the Future: museums as agents of generational equity
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
“We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, nuclear waste and public debt, and that we feel …
Exploring the Future of Museums and Labor
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Hi, this is Nicole. Yesterday, I posted some thoughts inspired by a local, intimate dialogue on museums and internships that I was honored to convene here at AAM. Today, continuing with the …
Envisioning the Accessible Future of Peer Review
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
One of my favorite parts of putting together the recent “future issue” of Museum was asking my colleagues at AAM to imagine how their work, and the programs they staff, such as …
Summer Reading: What’s on my iPad
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I never have enough time for long-form reading, but every summer I queue up a few things and make time to dive into them. Preferably sitting on the porch. With lemonade. And cats. Here are …
Digital Awakening: Essential technologies for pandemic survival and future success.
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Museum Magazine
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” — George Westerman, research …
Electing to value education within museums
I am not going to lie. Like many of us, I am suffering from election anxiety today. As a parent and educator, I see the glaring gaps in our fractured educational system and become …
Taking the Bias Out of Hiring: Identifying and eliminating unconscious bias in recruitment processes.
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in January/February 2017 issue of Museum magazine. I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of …
The Library of the Great Silence: A Space for Beings Throughout the Universe to Explore Shared Challenges
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
I have a special place in my heart for exhibits and installations that explore potential futures in creative, immersive ways. As I compiled a collection of such work, at some point I …
Introducing Museum 2040
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The November/December issue of Museum mailed out yesterday, as well as going up on the web. (This issue of the magazine is available as a free download for members and non-members alike). …
My story, Part 1 (October 7, 2019)
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When CFM launched in 2008, one of our first capers was recruiting museum people into Superstruct, the Institute for the Future’s Massive Multi-player Online Forecasting game. Over the …
Breaking Trail
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This blog started last February—faced with its approaching six month anniversary I have been wrestling with the right balance of content. As I travel the country and cruise the web talking …
Your Guide to the Future at the 2013 Alliance Annual Meeting
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Once again, I’m sharing a selection of futurist picks for the upcoming Alliance annual meeting. The advance registration deadline is April 26, so if you are not signed up yet, jump online! …