HOW MIGHT NIINA SIMON HELP

Book available FREE online!... The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places. It was written by me, Nina Simon. I’m a movement builder, former museum director, and the best-selling author of The Art of Relevance and the Museum 2.0 blog. In the time since The Participatory Museum was published in 2010, over 40,000 people have bought the book, and another 200,000+ have read the online version available for free on this site. The Participatory Museum has been described as a “future classic of museology,” an “indispensable guide,” and just a darn good book to read. You can read the book for free online here, or purchase it as a paperback or ebook. Here’s Nina sharing some of the key points from the book in her 2012 TEDx talk.

SADLY, there are Cultural STATUSquoists out and about who just refuse to listen to NINA saying that what she dose is HIPPYdippy most of whom are funded bureaucrats in OLDworld institutions ... it is what it is!

BREAK WITH TRADITION AND 

READ, THINK AND GO YOUR

OWN WAY ... NINA DID THAT!

GO TO https://participatorymuseum.org/

STURT'S FRIENDS

SEE https://www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/get-involved/support-us

If anyone wonders where one would start to do an audit of this place's Community of Ownership and Interest there are clues right here and then one might work on from there!

LET'S JUST FIND STUFF OUT

LINK TO HOW

Who are the people who have a sense ownership?

What is their interest?  Why might they have an interest?

What have they got invested?  

 When did Winifred West gift her investment 

in Sturt propertyto Winifred West Schools Ltd?

AND MORE STILL!

An audit of cognitive ownerships reveals the confluences and conflicts in ownership claims. If we abandon the notion that there can be a hierarchical structure to the ownership of place, – landscapes here again – it is possible that managers of cultural property can begin:

• To work towards accommodating claims in the context of coexistent cognitive ownerships;

• To resolve conflicts and tensions over usage and access; and

• To establish appropriate planning processes and management systems.

Who are these cognitive owners? The simple answer is almost everyone but a list of them must be inclusive rather than exclusive or privileged and it must be an ‘open list’. More important than knowing 'who' is knowing what their interest and ownerships are and the cultural context in which an ownership is claimed. Knowing that allows for the accommodation of inclusive and holistic planning and management processes.

 

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 NB: The images below have been GOOGLEgleaned from various sources and collaged.

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
Bill Gates

No Bill since you said that THEinternet IS the TOWNsquare

replete with drinking fountains, bench seats, stocks even!

OCCUPY IT AS YOU WILL!

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

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And it is ever

liely to be thus!