Shelley Mannion's Blog

In Nina Simon’s session Going Analogue we worked in groups to imagine how a museum might be transformed into something else. What something else? Well, that was up to us. Finding the answer involved completing the question: Make museums like [your idea here]. We then brainstormed concrete suggestions for how we would transform the museum into this new type of thing. Other groups filled that blank in the sentence above with a church potluck, bank, credit card, wiki and even fantasy baseball. Our group chose Nature. What did we mean by Nature?

For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/