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Thinking about Museums

thoughts on museums, content, design, and why they matter

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    • Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums: Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay
    • The distributed museum is already here–it’s just not very evenly distributed
    • Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference
    • CODE | WORDS: Technology and Theory in the Museum
    • A Series of Epistolary Romances. The second experiment by the CODE|WORDS collective.
    • Being teachable
    • Reprogram: Technology, innovation and culture in a new era of museums
    • Firearms curation in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century maritime contexts| A comparative study
    • Looking Around vs. Looking Down: Incorporating Mobility into Your Experience Design
    • MONA: Less is More
    • The Ethics of Exhibiting Salvaged Shipwrecks
    • Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
    • So We’ve Got a Web Site, Now What?

Month: May 2011

Apps as data visualizations

May 24, 2011 Ed Rodley

I’ve been stuck on Koven Smith’s challenge from IgniteSmithsonian to disambiguate the digital from the physical. In several meetings now on a variety of topics,

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Mobile Apps for Museums book launch!

May 22, 2011 Ed Rodley

One of the hardest parts of writing is the waiting period between the writing and the publication. Earlier in the Spring, I wrote a piece

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Boston Museum Geeks assembled!

May 12, 2011 Ed Rodley

Last night, a varied group of folks who are interested in new technology in museums convened at the Eastern Standard for the first of (hopefully)

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Boston Museum Tech Meetup, May 11, 7PM

May 9, 2011 Ed Rodley

So a bunch of us Boston-area types were sitting at the bar at Museums and Web saying “We should do this more often…” We decided

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User trends and mobile app ideas: What are people already doing?

May 6, 2011 Ed Rodley

I’m going to stop writing about Kristen Purcell’s MW2011 keynote… right after this. In our discussions of mobiles and visitors, we tend to go straight

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MW 2011 themes for the coming year

May 5, 2011 Ed Rodley

It seems to be shaping up to be the kind of year where I keep making myself promises to be a more deliberate learner. So,

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