Thinking about Museums

How you can help

January 16, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part Three in a series of posts about the process I’m using to write the book. This one focuses on how you can be part of it.

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My writing tools

January 15, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part Two of many on the process of writing this book. This one focuses on my hard and software tools.

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The rhythms of writing a book in a digital age

January 14, 2019 Ed Rodley

Part One of many on the process of writing this book. This one focuses on three rhythms of writing research based works.

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Museum Challenges for 2019

January 7, 2019 Ed Rodley

Distillation of a Twitter chat from New Year’s 2019 about challenges facing museum experience designers.

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Getting EMOTIVE in Athens

December 11, 2018 Ed Rodley

Highlights from my November, 2018 trip to Athens to attend a workshop about evaluating digital storytelling experiences around cultural heritage.

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AAM post on immersion

November 12, 2018 Ed Rodley

Long time readers will know I have a long term interest in immersion, and wrote about it here, here, here, and here. Last month, I

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On the state of public perception of museums

October 15, 2018 Ed Rodley

Submitted for your consideration… 2018 has been an interesting year thus far, and I mean that in the truly value-neutral sense of the word. Tons

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Playing With the Past, Part Two: Magic Circles and Interaction Alibis

March 12, 2018 Ed Rodley

Given what we know about play, games, and learning, what can we pull out of the mass of research? For me, the two biggest tools I’ve come across are the concepts of the magic circle and the interaction alibi. These powerful ideas have caused me to reframe a lot of what I thought I knew about museum experience design, and their potential in the heritage sector is vast, and as yet largely untapped methinks.

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Useful Dialectics, Part One – Transformation vs. Change

September 28, 2017 Ed Rodley

I’m very excited for MCN2017 in November! The intellectual thrill of beating a session into shape with friends old and new is like a

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“My dear Henry Junior”

November 20, 2015 Ed Rodley

On writing to the audience In my years of working in museums I’ve gotten quite a few letters from members of the public looking for

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Tracing the contours of digital transformation, Part One

September 11, 2015 Ed Rodley

I’ve been thinking a lot about transformation since writing about the Museum Full Stack. It’s been a deep rabbit hole and promises to get deeper,

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“Outsourcing” the curatorial impulse, Part One

October 29, 2014 Ed Rodley

This past Saturday, my lovely and talented wife and I made our weekly trek to the local farmers’ market in Union Square, Somerville. It is,

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Useful Dialectics, Part Three – Hierarchy vs. Network

October 10, 2017 Ed Rodley

In this post, I explore the current tension between ways of thinking about power relationships; the established hierarchical model, versus the emergent network model.

Useful Dialectics, Part Two – Design vs. Tradition

October 2, 2017 Ed Rodley

I explore and refine the dialectical relationship between design and tradition, which can be seen as the distinctions between reflective and non-reflective practice.