Given the difficulties I’ve had finishing the last couple of things I posted on my blog, I thought I’d steal a page from one of my
Category: Design process
On museums and contact zones
“When museums are seen as contact zones, their organizing structure as a collection becomes an ongoing historical, political, moral relationship––a power-charged set of exchanges, of push and pull.”
On Unhelpful Analogies
In all the hubbub around changing practices in museums, a constant trope has been the tension between two camps. On the one hand are those
The culture wars
If you’ve read my blog for any period of time, you’ve doubtless witnessed the occasions where I find myself scratching my head at what cultural
A Series of Epistolary Romances (the CODE|WORDS experiment continues)
Originally posted on museum geek:
Late last week, we quietly announced that CODE|WORDS–the experiment in online discourse that Ed Rodley, Rob Stein, and I kicked off in 2014–is…
That Which Is Lost
One of the follow up conversations I had at MCN2015 was with Jeff Inscho about our Content session. It was a wide-ranging one, touching on
Thinking about Museums 