This talk was developed by Nina Simon for the Our Museums convening in June 2014 in partnership with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The focus is on mechanisms for scaling up inclusive and participatory practice in museums and cultural institutions.

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

2. santacruzmah.org

4. HOW CAN WE
EMBED INCLUSIVE
PRACTICE
EVERYWHERE,
FOR EVERYONE?

14. HOW CAN WE
EMBED INCLUSIVE
PRACTICE
EVERYWHERE,
FOR EVERYONE?

15. participation

16. social bridging

19. experimentation

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2012-2013

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

33. 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.

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

40. NOTE 3:
BE RIGOROUS.

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

46. BRIDGING
EMPOWERING

47. NOTE 4:
EXPLOIT YOUR
DISTINCTIVENESS.

56. NOTE 5:
MAKE SPACE.

64. 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 andYour Research,” 1986
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65. your
turn
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