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Ruth Cuadra

10 Innovative Materials To Look Out For In 2012 - 0 views

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    it is estimated that 70% of all new product innovation is based on materials with new or improved properties.
Gina Hall

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

  • 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.”
David Bloom

Restaurants Use Instagram To Tap Into Food Porn Obsession - 0 views

  • If you're on Instagram, then you know there are plenty of people addicted to pulling out their cell phones to take snapshots of the greasy burgers, frothy mochas and picturesque cupcakes they eat while out on the town.
  • Now Comodo, a Latin American restaurant in New York's SoHo neighborhood, is, by creating an "Instagram menu."
Ileana Maestas

Participatory budgeting - 2 views

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    New ways to consider budgeting.
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)
David Bloom

When you and employer split, who gets your friends and followers? - Red Tape - 0 views

  • A controversial court ruling last week has shined a light on this made-in-the-digital age problem: Who owns Twitter followers, Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections when employers and employees part ways?
Lisa Eriksen

First Nonprofit Grocery Store in U.S. Slated to Open in Pennsylvania | PND | Foundation... - 0 views

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    Creative nonprofit financing for a needed service.  How could museums participate in such efforts.
Ruth Cuadra

The third space: the cafe's place in forming modern Japan | The Japan Times Online - 1 views

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    Cafes, then, are both a product of modernity and, through the space they provide for new ideas to develop, a driver of modernity.
Lisa Eriksen

Pandora for Fine Art | IdeaFeed | Big Think - 0 views

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    Pandora for museums? Where will this take us on our tech journey?
Lisa Eriksen

German Employees Help Define Company's Board of Directors | IdeaFeed | Big Think - 0 views

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    Could you imagine museum workers electing 1/2 of the board?
Ruth Cuadra

Intel Futurist: Three Things We Want From Tech - 0 views

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    "To embrace technology it must have a link to the past..."
Ruth Cuadra

The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated | Brain Pic... - 0 views

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    even the simplest narrative can elicit powerful empathic response by triggering the release of neurochemicals like cortisol and oxytocin, provided it is highly engaging and follows the classic dramatic arc
Garry Golden

Cultural Institute - Google - 1 views

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    ummm
Ruth Cuadra

Shedding and Repurposing. - Wednesday, 3rd October 2012 at 4Hoteliers - 0 views

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    Virtually every category of consumer is spending less on physical products and more on non-physical ones such as digital products, online education, and personal experiences.
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