Using Scenarios to Plan Your Museum’s COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Response
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Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. The Center for the Future …
A Futurist Call for Proposals at AAM2020
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CFM is building a museum time machine, and you can help., In the spirit of the 2020 AAM annual meeting theme (“A Bridge to the Future”) CFM will transform one room at the Moscone Convention …
Inspiring a New Generation
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Author Neal Stephenson recently launched the Hieroglyph project, to rally writers to reintroduce optimism into science fiction. That is pretty ironic, considering some of the …
TrendsWatch 2019 Executive Summary
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TrendsWatch 2019 is available as a PDF download Executive Summary (free PDF download) Full report (free to individual members and employees of member organizations) Full report ($10 for …
Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War
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Here is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to …
Catching up with: Jane McGonigal, 2008 CFM Lecturer
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This the first in a series of updates on various interesting folk you have been introduced to through CFM lectures or our the “artists interpreting the future of museums” …
Rethinking Hiring: Walking the Walk
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I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of TrendsWatch), “you might want to…” I always ask myself, and the Alliance, if we might …
My Story Part 4: How to Get Trapped in a Tuscan Villa
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Ten years ago, when I wrote my fictional diary of 2019, I used the scenario created by the Institute for the Future for the Superstruct forecasting game as a lens through which to reexamine …
Futurist Friday: Curating the Hereafter
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I have a special place in my heart for museums that help their audiences explore the future. The latest addition to my collection: the Hereafter Institute, a fictitious company created by …
Electing to value education within museums
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In today’s post, Sage Morgan-Hubbard, the Alliance’s Ford. W. Bell Fellow for Museums & P-12 Education, announces the relaunch of our education web site, …
Exhibit A
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I’m taking advantage of the late summer lull in blogging to share my personal favorite from last spring’s Future Fiction Challenge, a story submitted by Ken Eklund. It nails so …
Futurist Friday: Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me
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One of my favorite methods of helping people envision the future is encouraging them to invent “future artifacts.” These objects embody the technology, culture and overall …