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Gina Hall

Zócalo Public Square :: Why On Earth Am I Looking At This? - 0 views

www.zocalopublicsquare.org/...nexus

engagement third+place CAMLF audience

shared by Gina Hall on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Most Museums Have Trouble Connecting To the Public. Maybe It's Time For Some New Ideas.
  • underprepared for their pending encounter with the visual arts
  • many audience members seem intuitively aware of what is missing: more access to the story explaining how and why a work has arrived at this place for their enjoyment.
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  • soldiering through the galleries and paying minimal attention to the exhibits prepared expressly for their viewing
  • reanimated by the opportunities to engage in eating, spending, and talking on the phone—activities compatible with a sidewalk stroll.
  • critical message about the socializing function of the city
  • There is scientific data, too, upon which to build an argument for ensuring that we do better by our museum guests.
  • participation in the arts, especially as audience, predicted civic engagement, tolerance, and altruism.”
  • “[T]he space of the art museum is an inherently public or civic space,” wrote Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, in a recent essay. “Art museums in this context need to be understood as quintessentially urban institutions that play a critical role in defining the intellectual and physical fabric of cities and towns.”
Ruth Cuadra

Poll: The Best Third Space Work Options in Boston Right Now - Third Space - Curbed Boston - 2 views

boston.curbed.com/...coworking-spaces.php

CAMLF third+space

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 14 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 14 Jul 15
     
    Look at all the categories (or maybe subcategories) of third spaces that have grown up in Boston and become civic spaces and viable(?) business opportunities.
Ruth Cuadra

Ramadan 2014 - Third Spaces and the Importance of Building Institutions - 0 views

www.patheos.com/...tance-of-building-institutions

CAMLF third+place muslims

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 17 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 17 Jul 14
     
    Background on how Muslims define home, work and a third space: One space in the domestic sphere (the family and the home); a second space is the sphere of civic engagement (including school, work and other forms of public participation); and a "Third Space" where individual, sometimes professional, and sometimes transgressive acts are played out: where people let their "real" selves show.
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