Schedule

This is the schedule for the workshop on April 19-21, 2011. All sessions will be held at the Mystic Seaport Museum.

April 19 - Audience Development Across the Museum This day is open to a wide group of staff members beyond the Morgan project who are interested in promoting visitor and community participation across museum activities.


 * 10am - Icebreaker introduction
 * 10:15am - Presentation by Nina to provide an overview of participatory, multi-platform techniques for audience engagement with examples from around the world, followed by open Q&A
 * 11:15am - Small group work on goals for audience engagement and relationship development across all platforms
 * 12:30pm - lunch
 * 1:30pm - Meet in the galleries - social object workshop around existing artifacts and exhibits
 * 3pm - back to the workshop room for open dialogue about topics of interest to staff

April 20 - Morgan Workshop Day 1 This day is focused on exploring different models for community participation and discussing how they might be applied at the different sites.
 * 9:30am - introductions and goals for the two-day workshop, introducing the wiki
 * 10am - listing the core aspects of the project that we want to focus on, organizing them in terms of community involvement and difficulty
 * 10:30am - introduction to the four levels of participation with examples and discussion
 * 11:30am - small group activity: take one aspect of the project and brainstorm how it would work on each level of participation
 * 12:30pm - lunch
 * 1:30pm - small group presentations and discussion: how participatory do we want the project to be? Are there particular aspects that we want to assign to different levels of participation?
 * 2:30pm - small group work: starting points for specific participatory processes - questions to address, ways to structure the partnerships
 * 3:30pm - whole group debrief

April 21 - Morgan Workshop Day 2 This day is focused both on visitor participation at the various sites/events and on next steps to move forward.
 * 9am - goals for the day
 * 9:30am - go out to the site and develop ideas for visitor participation around the Mystic location
 * 11:30am - whole group discussion to answer the big question: how do we see visitors being engaged as participants at the different sites?
 * 12:30pm - lunch
 * 1:30pm - whole group discussion: what are the questions that we need to answer to get to the next step and make this happen? (with examples from Nina)
 * 2:30pm - small group activity to flesh out plans for addressing these questions
 * 3:30pm - final debrief with activity to get started