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Ruth Cuadra

3 Near-Future Scenarios That Are Changing The Way We Work Today - 0 views

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    Futures thinking applied to the design of office furniture!
Ruth Cuadra

Three Self-Healing Materials That Could Change the Future of Construction - 0 views

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    The future of sustainablity museums structures may benefit from: asphalt that re-sets itself with a dose of induction heating, concrete that patches up crack with the help of its living bacterial aggregate, and a recent discovery that some metals have self-healing properties.
Karen Wade

School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap - 0 views

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    What can museums do to help even out the gap in educational opportunities?
Ruth Cuadra

Attractions Management - Abandoned train tunnels below London 'to be transformed' into ... - 0 views

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    Gee, LA is still trying to get much of its underground transportation built, while London is looking to re-purpose old, unused tunnels. Among the possible uses imagined for these spaces is a National Fire Brigade Museum.
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.
Ruth Cuadra

2014 Great Places in America - 0 views

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    Nothing in California made the list of Great Places, but maybe we can help change that!
Ruth Cuadra

Inedible Vending - Vending machines move beyond food to provide more creative services - 0 views

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    Would you buy art from a vending machine?  What would you buy from a vending machine in a museum store?
Ruth Cuadra

Alcoholic Imitation - Creating a mature aesthetic, soda brands adopt designs reminiscen... - 0 views

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    Is it possible to reverse-engineer this trend in museums by recasting "traditional" exhibitions and programs for a younger audience by promoting them using youth-oriented aesthetics?
Ruth Cuadra

How A Grown-Up Field Trip To A Museum Can Improve Your Work (And Life) | Fast Company |... - 1 views

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    Museums improve well-being similar to playing a sport! That's it...from now on I can answer all sport/exercise-related questions with "I go to museums!"
Ruth Cuadra

Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking? - 0 views

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    Excellent summary of this year's Ice Bucket challenge and some questions about the future impact of such fundraising tactics. Most interesting: Will the success of the ice bucket challenge create a culture of giving that is not strategic and not directed to where the greatest needs are?
Ruth Cuadra

Inventing the possible space | The Miami Times | Serving South Florida's African Americ... - 0 views

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    Referring to an exhibition called "Third Space: Inventing the Possible" set to open at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, Director M'Bow said, "The Third Space is how people in hard times create a space that is no longer bounded by limitations."
Ruth Cuadra

Millennials read more books than their elders, Pew study finds - 0 views

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    Among younger Americans who did read at least one book, the median or typical number read in the past year was 10, but they seems to value libraries less than older adults.
Ruth Cuadra

S.F.'s uncommon areas: Plazas created from scraps of urban land - 1 views

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    I love this quote with "city" replaced by "museum": Yet the aspirations of a [museum] can also be measured in smaller scraps of land - the remnant spaces that often are blighted or ignored, but with imaginative design and care have the potential to be destinations.
Ruth Cuadra

Pavegen - 0 views

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    Using pavement squares designed to replace concrete paving slabs, Pavegen squares generate energy as people walk across them. Light a building? Power an exhibition?
Lisa Eriksen

3 Things That Turned This Photograph Into a Ferguson Icon | Fast Company | Business + I... - 0 views

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    "More of the news we are likely to consume today is visually driven," he says. "A lot of knowledge is non-verbal." How do we use powerful images to convey knowledge and feeling, not just illustrate?
Ruth Cuadra

Will New Museums and Parks Fight Chicago Crime? - 0 views

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    How much should cities balance infrastructure development with spending to lure new cultural institutions to their cities?
Karen Wade

Recent Video | PBS NewsHour | PBS - 0 views

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    Yes, we need to "woo" all our visitors, but is this really the way to "woo" millennials? I doubt if this approach would impress many of my millennial friends (and I have a bunch of 20-somethings who are good friends).
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