On 16 September 2011 I chaired a session (including a brief overview of my research, at the request of the organisers) at the Museums Galleries Scotland Conference 2011 Collaborating to Compete in Edinburgh. My presentation notes about my research into crowdsourcing games for museums and some thoughts on the conference are at ‘Entrepreneurship and Social Media’ and ‘Collaborating to Compete’ and Conference notes: Museums and Galleries Scotland’s ‘Collaborate to Compete’.
'Hacking culture' at the V&A Web Weekend
Katy Beale and I ran a workshop on 'hacking culture' at the V&A Museum on Friday 15 July. I've put the photos for 'Culture (paper) hack at V&A's Web Weekend' but still haven't written this workshop up properly. Briefly – we explained what hack days are, the types of hacks people create, how CultureHack started – then we handed over to the participants to 'create their perfect museum experience' with paper, markers, scissors, glue and some printouts of objects from the V&A's collection online. People came up with some wonderfully creative ideas, and it was interesting to see where they overlapped with the kinds of things you see at hack days, and where they were completely different.
From the V&A Web Weekend Programme:
Katy and Mia explore the idea of museums as objects, stories, experiences, people and places. If you could take objects out of the museum, where would you put them? If you could have access to any part of the museum, what would it be? You'll hear about recent Culture Hacks and then create your own paper prototypes, bringing to life your own simple solutions or seemingly impossible ideas.
Changing contexts: museums, audiences and technology
A presentation for the International Training Programme run by the British Museum for museum professionals from around the world. This is based on a presentation I prepared for OpenCulture 2011, but includes additional material on mobile phones/devices including the 'Hidden Histories' pilot.
The future of museums and learning to love change
A presentation on 'The future of museums and learning to live with love change' for OpenCulture 2011 in Birmingham, UK, on June 8, 2011.
The future of museums and learning to love change
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Owen Stephens live-blogged my talk, his notes are at
Open Culture 2011 – Looking to the Future.
Everyone wins: crowdsourcing games and museums
A presentation called 'Everyone wins: crowdsourcing games and museums' for MuseumNext in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 26, 27th. The link to my slides was retweeted so much the slides made it onto the front page of slideshare, which was especially nice as I'd had a lot of fun making the presentation interesting enough to combat the post-lunch slot and to help non-tech/game people stay engaged for the whole talk.
Everyone wins: crowdsourcing games and museums
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