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Here are a couple more examples from the art world:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/yourcollection/createyourcollection.do
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/3/9523651CE0A7D433612F.htm
Quoting Wendy Coones <[log in to unmask]>:
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> from the art museum world, the Mass MoCA created a digital gallery
> called "Your Show Here" where visitors could choose from a database
> of images to curate their own contemporary art show. there is a
> healthy movement within the new media artist and curator scene
> towards opening up "meaning making" to the interested public, as
> influenced by a www democratization of knowledge. seems like the
> wiki-world (the open encyclopedia) is also part of this.
>
> wendy coones
> scientific staff
> center for image science
> danube universoty krems, austria
>
>>>> Hanna Sathiapal <[log in to unmask]> 10.11.2006 11:57 >>>
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> What a pity to have missed the discussion about museum-users as
> participants. Thank you Ian for sharing your blog from 1998. In the
> meantime, what are your experiences with projects on visitor
> participation in content creation?
>
> In the context of an exhibition on how an encylopaedia is produced I
> am thinking of a part with a selection of curiosity-cabinet-like
> objects that visitors can use to build exhibition. By arranging,
> contextualizing and categorizing objects, knowledge construction is
> shown as an open-ended and social process. Does anyone know of any
> similar approaches and corresponding experiences?
>
> The curator's objection is that people likely to visit an exhibition
> on encyclopaedias in the national library would'nt want to play with
> objects.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Thank you and best,
>
> Hanna Sathiapal
>
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> Am 10.11.2006 um 00:47 schrieb Ian Russell:
>
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>> At 19:12 09/11/2006, Nina Simon wrote:
>>
>>> Dear museum smarties,
>>>
>>> Like many of you, I was energized, inspired, simultaneously over- and
>>> under-whelmed by ASTC this year. I was particularly motivated by
>>> some
>>> discussions about ways to more meaningfully bring visitors into the
>>> museum as users--active participants in content creation.
>>>
>>> So, I've started a blog, Museum 2.0 (http://
>>> www.museumtwo.blogspot.com),
>>> to explore some of these ideas. The web is amazing for its
>>> ability to
>>> evolve and adapt, and web 2.0 applications give users high-value,
>>> personalized content based on their social participation in them.
>>> Why
>>> can't museums do the same? Can this model of visitor/user engagement
>>> work in our halls and programs? How far can/will/should we go?
>>
>> I've just had a strange experience!
>>
>> Reading Nina Simon's message, I recalled chairing an online
>> discussion about the same great question, back in 1998 as an
>> official, 'virtual' part of that year's Museums and the Web
>> conference in Toronto http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/abstracts/
>> russell.html under the title, 'Symmetrical Transactions'.
>>
>> I searched Google to see if any vestiges of that discussion still
>> remained in cyberspace. I discovered that it's all still there,
>> fossilised in a long-forgotten, unlinked corner of my OWN website.
>> http://www.interactives.co.uk/graffiti/
>>
>> It felt peculiar to read again through this stimulating discussion
>> lasting less than a month over eight years ago.
>>
>>
>> [log in to unmask] * http://www.interactives.co.uk
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>> Give people facts and you feed their minds for an hour.
>> Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime.
>> *
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