The document discusses radical collaboration and participation at museums. It presents graphs showing increases in visitors and cash from 2010-2011 to 2011-2012 and notes a goal of involving new communities. It acknowledges that a revolution does not happen in concentric circles and notes the importance of inviting meaningful action and rigor. It discusses thinking in terms of platforms, making space, and the value of working on problems not believed to be important.

1. RADICAL
COLLABORATION
partnership and inclusion
Nina Simon @ninaksimon
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

2. santacruzmah.org

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6. web 2.0 is software
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-Tim O’Reilly, technologist and publisher

7. how can our work
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15. social bridging

19. experimentation

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25. NOTE 1:
A REVOLUTION IS NOT
AN EXERCISE IN
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES.

34. I'm closer to the stodgy traditional museum
supporter than to the audiences you are
currently trying to reach, but I strongly support
your outreach and attempts to involve new
communities. It is precisely because of that
outreach that I finally became a museum
member last year. There was no reason to do
so before, since the museum was doing
nothing. I still have little occasion to go to the
museum, but I'm willing to support it as an
important community resource.

35. NOTE 2:
INVITE MEANINGFUL
ACTION AT ALL LEVELS.

41. NOTE 3:
BE RIGOROUS.

46. We produce
programming
Our mission is
achieved
(therefore give us money)

48. BRIDGING

49. BRIDGING
EMPOWERING

50. NOTE 4:
THINK PLATFORMS.

57. NOTE 5:
MAKE SPACE.

65. The average scientist, so far as I can make out,
spends almost all his time working on problems which
he believes will not be important and he also doesn't
believe that they will lead to important problems.
-Richard Hamming, “You and Your Research,” 1986
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