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Ariane Karakalos

Museums and the ageing population - LEM Project - 0 views

  • Today, there are many individual examples of museums and other heritage learning institutions providing learning activities for senior citizens. But as of yet, there has not been any aggregate analysis on how cultural heritage institutions in Europe deal with these issues. The research group on museums and the ageing population will be dedicated to find good examples, analyse them and spread the results through the LEM-network to the inspiration of others. The group will start by creating an overview of experience: what has been done and what has been fruitful (and perhaps not so fruitful) in the different national contexts. The overview will be based on ideas, examples, practices etc, collected by the research group members respectively.
Elizabeth Merritt

The Daily Northwestern | Endowments: What are they good for? - 0 views

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      I think he means "liquid," not "illiquid"
  • in this wager against the future, austerity is partly a moral calculus. For funds can grow with compound interest, but so too can ideas.”
  • “If (universities’) goal is to continue into the deep future, then spending more now could better prop up the university’s scholarship-driven mission than hoarding in strict deference to the dollar,” Bernard wrote. “The example of graduate funding illustrates how,
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    Interesting and informative article. Thanks. Endowments can be very helpful. But the nonprofit and should set it up only after a careful conversation and a joint agreement. It so happened that I'm currently writing an essay on the topic. I should say, this source https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/crime/ includes a lot of useful info, so it helped me. Turning back to endowments, it is important to keep in mind that they are invested in perpetuity and that endowment life insurance policies do not have investment risk or interest rate risk.
Ruth Cuadra

The top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 - 1 views

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    The World Economic Forum's annual list of this year's breakthrough technologies, published today, includes "socially aware" open AI. As technology for AI assistants expands, imagine that you could walk up to a display in a museum and ask a custom AI assistant any question you like about what you are seeing. Siri and Cortana and Google Assistant and Amazon Echo try to answer questions on all topics, but what if museums and other organizations could build their own add-on packs for their sphere of knowledge? The Getty, for example, would prepare answers to every question they've ever heard about "Statue of a Victorious Youth" and museum visitors (or maybe anybody in the world) could use the add-on pack to find out what they want to know.
Ariane Karakalos

A Lifetime of Curiosity: Science Centers and Older Adults - 1 views

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    Browse PublicationsA Lifetime of Curiosity: Science Centers and Older Adults A Lifetime of Curiosity A Lifetime of Curiosity: Science Centers and Older Adults Wendy Pollock, Editor ASTC, May 2009 With the first wave of baby boomers now looking to the next phase of life, the time is right for museums to expand their engagement with older adult audiences. This publication offers positive examples, inspirational stories, and resources for those who are ready to get involved
Karen Wade

NN living museum and autism school team up - Daily Press - 1 views

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    Another great example of a museum serving visitors with autism.
Ruth Cuadra

Floating offices: A new kind of third space | New Ways of Working Network - 0 views

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    Many businesses can be run successfully from anywhere in the world, using modern collaboration software and teleconferencing, but other businesses may need "an environment where people interact in person, and startups are a great example of that.
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?
Lisa Eriksen

An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia - 0 views

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    This is an amazing - yet logical - concept. Great example of "experience design."  How could museums be a part of this village? 
Ruth Cuadra

Transmaterial - Materials that redefine our physical environment - 0 views

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    An amazing array of materials.  For example, Ecor is a 100% USDA-certified bio-based material composite that ...transforms abundant, low cost cellulose fiber resources such as paper, newsprint, cardboard, or agricultural fibers into finished products. Ecor is both a flexible and durable material with a variety of potential applications across multiple industries, including interior design, exhibition design, theater, arts and crafts, and packaging.
Ruth Cuadra

Characteristics and Guidelines of Great Public Spaces - 1 views

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    Some useful language that echoes the definition and examples of third spaces that we've been working with.
Karen Wade

Museum 2.0: New Approach, Historic Mission: Remaking a Factory Museum via Community Co-... - 0 views

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    Another great example of how history doesn't just look back, but helps folks move into the future! Why can't more history museums provide creative outlets for their visitors.
Ruth Cuadra

Data Cuisine: The Edible Future Of Infographics - 0 views

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    It was bound to happen: Data Cuisine isall about cooking up infographics that you can literally eat: a pizza that conveys the patterns of 100 years of Italian immigration, for example, or a salmon mousse that explores the environmental impacts of commercial fishing over the past decade.
Ruth Cuadra

What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics? - 0 views

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    Interesting example of thinking out of the box: food bank consulted with economists to develop fair and efficient system for distributing donated food.
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Ariane Karakalos

The future museum and the future school at newlearningonline - 0 views

  • A team of researchers across Europe is conducting an experiment to bring the museum into the school using virtual reality technology.
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  • The CONNECT project team believes that by linking the classroom with science centres, museums, planetariums and observatories, it can marry the best elements of formal curricula with informal learning.
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  • Heads covered by virtual-reality visors,
  • link four science centres with participating classrooms in each country.
  • demanding technical challenges. A museum needs a series of access points around the various exhibits, for example, so students can really ‘visit’ the museum instead of watching a series of presentations. ‘In some museums that’s easy because there are high ceilings to fix the access points, in others it’s quite a challenge,’ explains Sotiriou …
  • In its software, CONNECT has produced a stunning virtual museum, featuring colourful, exciting graphics that allow a student to try experiments and then view the results. This advanced learning environment is called the CONNECT Virtual Science Thematic Park –
Lisa Eriksen

A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Professor Piketty offers early-20th-century France as an example. “France was a democracy and yet the system did not respond to an incredible concentration of wealth and an incredible level of inequality,” he said. “The elites just refused to see it. They kept claiming that the free market was going to solve everything.”It didn’t.
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    Perhaps we should just focus on high-level, individual donors since they will own most all of the wealth?
Ileana Maestas

Disaster? Pack a Library Card - 0 views

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    Great report on how the libraries in NY and New Jersey became centers of communication during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Could museum's serve the same purpose in their community? This concept could be worked into museums' Disaster Preparedness plan.
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    Elaine Gurian has been advocating for years for museums to be "essential" in their communities. This is an example of walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Yes, museums should think about how they could serve their communities in the event of disasters and build those ideas into their prepardedness plans.
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