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Lisa Eriksen

'Memory Cafes' For Dementia Patients Gain Ground | Here & Now - 0 views

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    Can museums offer "memory cafe" experiences, as well as "programs"? Third places for people with memory loss?
Ruth Cuadra

The Next Big Thing: "Sit-able Cities" - 1 views

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    Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
Ruth Cuadra

The Future of the Stacks - 3 views

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    If libraries were to disappear, cities and towns would lose essential "third places" that are open to the public.
Karen Wade

Center for the Future of Museums: Robots for Accessibility: Help Henry Spread the Word - 0 views

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    Increased accessibility through robotics to museums and countless other places is no longer a dream of the future, it's a reality in many large institutions. The challenge now is to translate these advances for use by the masses.
Ruth Cuadra

An app that encourages friends to put down their phones - 0 views

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    To be available for iPhone next year. When users activate the app and put their phones together, apples will start growing, which can then be harvested and exchanged for rewards, such as discounts. The productivity of the apples is dependent on the time the phones are placed together. Apples will only be produced when users are not using other apps.
Rajesh Gupta

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    Dissertation Help Germany is one of the best online portal where any needy student hire professional writers. Place your order with us to customize your dissertation.
Elizabeth Merritt

Why your local library might be hiring a social worker - MindShift - 0 views

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    For years, libraries have been a place people turn to for information to help them solve problems. But the challenges patrons are dealing with are increasingly beyond the scope of what most librarians are trained to handle - and that's where social workers can fill in the gaps.
Elizabeth Merritt

Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state : NPR - 0 views

  • "We already are seeing 'border war' with individual states passing major legislation that differs considerably from that in other places," says Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and William Gale, a Brookings senior fellow in economic studies,
  • When and if the issue turns to violent confrontations between local citizens and federal officers, or between contentious groups of citizens, the clash might well take place far closer to home
  • America has an extraordinary number of guns and private militias," they write. How many? They cite the National Shooting Sports Foundation's estimate of 434 million firearms in civilian possession in the U.S. right now. That would be 1.3 guns per person.
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  • But the most meaningful geographic separation in our society is no longer as tidy as North and South, or East and West. It is the familiar divide between urban and rural, or to update that a bit: metro versus non-metro.
  • for now we're less a nation divided into 50 states than we are two nations that are both present in each of those states.
Elizabeth Merritt

Want to Appeal to Gen Z? Lose the 'Cult of Curator' Mindset - Museum-iD - 0 views

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    Museums have always held a special place in the American cultural zeitgeist. Whether it's movies ranging from Indiana Jones to "Night
Ruth Cuadra

Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice - 0 views

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    The social encounter is a particular kind of meeting from which a wide range of different responses may emerge (e.g., confusion, misunderstandings, tension,trauma, and possibly social change)
Ruth Cuadra

Birth of the Third space - 3 views

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    Interesting use of "third space"...enter the self-contained worlds and invented spaces that suggest new forms of the city, as they rise from the rubble of the old
Ruth Cuadra

The third space | Reader's Digest Australia - 0 views

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    80 per cent of Australian's feel the pressure to have better work life balance. 83 per cent hate or don't like their job, and since the introduction of the term work life balance, depression has increased by a factor of 10.
Karen Wade

Navigating a Changing Economy: A New Normal for Museums? | Engaging Places - 0 views

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    Looking at what the new normal will be for museum funding and how we can benefit from the change.
Ruth Cuadra

Office Oasis: When The Workplace Doubles As A Space To Unwind (PHOTOS) - 1 views

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    Third space concept inversed to mean in-office refuges, an effect of what Bob Fox, publisher of the industry magazine Workspace Design, calls the Google philosophy to "give its employees a city."
Ruth Cuadra

Teaching People to Live Without Digital Devices - 0 views

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    The designers figured out the perfect come-on to get the group they were looking for and then supported them activities that played to the reason people came to participate.
Ruth Cuadra

Museums Showoff - 0 views

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    It's an open mic night ... something museums could do for their publics -- maybe in a third space!
Ruth Cuadra

This Laundromat Is A Bar Too - The Pop-Up City - 0 views

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    For people who would like some excitement during their laundry, there is the Wasbar, a combination between a laundromat and a bar.
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