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People & Participation is based on Involve's successful book by the same name which was launched in 2005. The book provides a useful summary of participatory methods and practice but given the number of methods and speed of the development of new methods it is impossible for a printed publication to stay accurate for long

This report describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. adults that participated in the arts (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances) via electronic media (e.g., TV, radio, computers and portable media devices) in 2008, based on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Separately, the report examines broad categories of arts participation via Internet. The report also investigates factors contributing to the likelihood of some Americans experiencing art through media. Finally, the report considers the relationship between media-based arts activities and other types of arts participation, such as live attendance and personal arts creation. June 2010. 146 pp.

Super, das ist ja ein toller und hilfreicher Report, danke fürs Aufspüren. ;-)

Launched in March 2010, Object Stories invites visitors to record their own narratives about personal objects-whether a piece of clothing, a cherished record album, or a family heirloom.  By capturing, honoring, and sharing participants' stories, this project aims to demystify the Museum, making it more accessible, welcoming, and meaningful to a greater diversity of communities - while continuing to highlight the inherent relationship between people and things.  Nearly one thousand people from throughout Portland-most of who had never before set foot in the Museum-have participated as storytellers in this project.

ne of the core questions behind Web 2.0 and user participation (especially in the museum context) is this: what is the proper role and relationship of experts and amateur enthusiasts?

Salgado untersucht Partizipation von interaktiven Auststellungsstücken. Sie entwirft anhand von 6 Fallbeispielen Paramter zur Entwicklgn und Beurteilung von Partizipation: * Theme (chosen for participation, and the openess with wihich it is presented) * Atmosphere (of the piece) * Input-output modalities * Accessibility * Time: Ties to the actual time of the visit * Community: Ties to the community Konference-Beitrag an der "Museums an the Web"-Konference, 2008 in Motreal

User participation Focus on the 'critical success factors' for user participation: what are the conditions, do's or don'ts, to make user participation really work? Are there any crucial or determining (external and internal) factors to take into account when developing user involvement strategies?"

Museums are quickly adapting to Web 2.0, and engaging with a new on-line audience. Social media projects are being developed and used by museum staff, and curators are starting to explore this new space. When the Powerhouse Museum's curatorial department created their first blog, they had no idea what they were in for, or what challenges they would face. They also had little idea of how curators as a whole are participating in social media activities. This paper will use the Powerhouse Museum's 'Object of the Week' blog and a major international survey of curators to investigate how social media activities are impacting on curatorial practice.

Our exciting plan is to transform the Ask a Curator website into a platform where engagement between curators and members of the public can expand and continue.The Ask a Curator website will be a platform for conversation between museums and the public. Anyone can log into Ask a Curator and ask participating museums a question.

Amplified is a not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events, conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread.

In the conference's closing plenary, leading museum thinkers teamed up to participate in formal, Oxford-style debates about thought-provoking questions faced by today's museum professionals. This year's debate topics were: Museums that are not run as businesses will ultimately fail. Engagement with online-only visitors is as important as engagement with those on site.

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project, a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary. But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

Crowdcuratd: Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process

Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process

"Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web."

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

photoarchive of the monastry Einsiedeln (CH) with more than 50000 photos from the beginning of photography up to today. registered users can add comments and can help to identify photos

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act, about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Authors Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard pack a lot into 40 pages--an argument for the rise of active arts engagement, a framework for thinking about ways to actively involve audiences, and lots of case studies. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation.

On Saturday 29 April 2000 the V&A staged its first Day of Record, a proposed series of events cataloguing applied and decorative arts in relation to the body. Over 1500 tattooed people visited the Museum on that day to have their artworks photographed for inclusion in the V&A digital archive of tattoos. This site is the product of that day.

ECHO's most recent web project is Learning from the People, a sub-site on WGBH's site Teachers' Domain. It draws on both Native and 'standard' (Euro-American) sources to examine two themes: traditional storytelling in the Native world, and Arctic climate change.  Museum and the Web 2008 : http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/abstracts/prg_335001722.html

Methods listing - a complete listing of methods

Viele haben mitgemacht, alle können jetzt schauen! Von 16. Juli bis 29. Oktober 2006 zeigt das Focke-Museum eine Ausstellung, die als einzigartiges Projekt Bremen und seine Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner zur Zusammenarbeit gebracht hat: Jeder konnte einen Vorschlag machen, einen Gegenstand anbieten, der für ihn im Jahr 2005 Zeuge und Symbol eines wichtigen Ereignisses gewesen ist. Tagungsbeitrag in Frankfurt: Anja Piontek: http://www.historisches-museum.frankfurt.de/index.php?article_id=190