designed by: garry golden forward elements, inc a 21st century roadmap for the future of museums...

Designed by:Garry GoldenForward Elements, Inc

A 21st Century Roadmap for the Future of Museums

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Foresight: The Front End of Innovation

Placed-based Experiences

Social Storytelling

Art & the Learner Era

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Every day I make an effort to go toward what I don't understand.

Yo-Yo Ma

Fundamentals of Foresight

• Visioning • Planning• Goals –

Objectives - Actions• Metrics / Roadmaps• Evaluation • Iterative Planning

• Forecasts• Scenarios

• Horizon Scanning• Issues Analysis • STEEP

SocietyTechnologyEconomicsEnvironmentPolitics

Identifying & Monitoring Change

Exploring Implications

Communicating Change

Step One Step Two Step Three

Fundamentals of Foresight

Entrepreneur•Ability to Anticipate & Adapt to Change (Seek Alternatives)

Manager•Ability to Assess & Measure•Leverage Diversity of People & Tools

Leader•Ability to Communicate the Need for Change (Visioning / Storytelling)

Ability to Apply Broadly Across Situations & Disciplines

Ability to Apply Broadly Across Situations & Disciplines

Growing Demand for ‘T-Shaped’ Museum Professionals

LUNCH

In the News

The US Air Force is exploring the development of a Social Radar dashboard which would aggregate sensor and sentiment data in order to forecast events such as civil unrest, election results, infrastructure demand, and wars before they might occur.

The systems will blend biometric and sociometric data from Facebook, political polls, UAV drones, relief worker reports, retail sales, and infectious disease alerts helping the dashboard to identify potential tipping points in social behavior change.

Social Radar Dashboard

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False

Kickstarter -a popular crowdsourcing project platform recently announced that it was on track to raise more money than the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 2012.

Mostly False

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Many industry pundits are calling 2012 – the Year of 3D Printing --- as startups in the additive manufacturing field bring products closer to market.

In January, Belgium’s Design Museum Gent announced a contest where amateur patrons take an online course and then submit objects that mimic the style of its upcoming 18th century ceramics exhibit. Selected designs are printed and placed within the galleries.

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Sixth Sense™ is a wearable, gestural interface that augments our physical world with digital information. Its MIT developers recently made the platform’s hardware and software components open source to encourage third party developers.

Under the new direction of Nina Simone the Santa Monica Museum of Art and History has announced a program to apply Sixth Sense to its 2013 exhibits – providing patrons with a chance to project information onto selected museum objects and wall spaces.

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After beating two reigning Jeopardy champions in the Spring of 2011, IBM Watson is now gearing up for prime-time at work!

IBM has announced a roadmap to bring Watson to work – focusing on healthcare, financial services and customer service.

Relevance to museum experiences?Relevance to museum experiences?

Foresight: The Front End of Innovation

Placed-based Experiences

Social Storytelling

Art & the Learner Era

…flash theater mob in 15 minutes

…flash theater mob in 15 minutes

…photographing city …photographing city

…Doug Wheeler infinity room

…Doug Wheeler infinity room

…dance performance tonight

…dance performance tonight

…aerial performer on bridge

…aerial performer on bridge

…street art on Bowery…street art on Bowery

• Integrating Third Place Qualities

• Talent: Staff & Partnerships

• Resetting Cultural Expectations

• Exploring Role of ‘Pop-up’ Satellites

21st Century Roadmap

Placed-based Experience

Foresight: The Front End of Innovation

Placed-based Experiences

Social Storytelling

Art & the Learner Era

Story of Museums & Eras of Media/Communication

Many to Many One to Many