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Ruth Cuadra

Crushpath Gets $2M To Help Salespeople Seal The Deal: Charles River Ventures And More A... - 0 views

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    Venture capital for helping salespeople connect with clients via social networking. "We are offering a third space, between the sales team and a client, where they can come together," he said. Can museums use this model to connect with potential donors/members?
Lisa Eriksen

This Beer Cooler Cuts Off All Mobile Signals, Forcing You To Actually Talk To The Peopl... - 0 views

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    We have been talking about TrendeWatch 2013 trend "disconnecting to reconnect" and here is a great example of a company capitalizing on this trend.  Great video.  Could this be welcome in galleries or some public programs?
Ileana Maestas

Vacaville Planning Commission to mull capital improvement projects - The Reporter - 0 views

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    Planning commissions are a place where museum's need to have a presence. These commissions look at the needs of the communities and plan up to ten years in advance. For museums to stay relevant to its community it needs to be involved in the log term plannin.
Ileana Maestas

Alternative Funding Sources - 0 views

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    Should museums start forming groups to examine long term funding sources?
Lisa Eriksen

Innovation Fetish: Naive Buzzword Unites Parties, Avoids Policy Choice | New Republic - 0 views

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    An interesting piece on public vs. private "innovation" and the politics that go with it. 
Elizabeth Merritt

How Community Design Advocates Can Be a Force for Design Justice - 0 views

  • Currently, Colloqate is working with community design advocates on Midland Library in Portland and restorative justice space in Dallas.
  • The project in Dallas, which deals with a former jail, allows us to think about restorative justice through the lens of those who have been most harmed by that space. We were able to hire CDAs that were formerly incarcerated and hire others who were part of the broader network of the city and they were working together to ask questions of their own specific communities,
  • Design as Protest (DAP) began as a yearlong organizing effort, involving 250 design professionals and design advocates across the United States and Canada. They examined how injustice can be challenged through the built environment. Issues such as ending the prison industrial complex, defunding and reallocating the police, and advocating against architecture projects that are hostile to communities of color.
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  • The Black Panthers talked about removing capitalist intentions within communities which are the standard tropes around what gentrification is and what it means for capital to come into a neighborhood and wash away cultural institutions. The ethos of design justice is simply that for every injustice in this world there is an architecture, a plan, a design, that’s been built to sustain that injustice, and for so much of our work power is vested in land.”
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    Community Design Associates are not only asked to talk about design, but also about their own experiences and the nuances that get missed in public consultations where the project is set and residents can only ask questions or give opinions.
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