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Museum of Imagination - facebook group test site

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:11:00 +0000

Museum of Imagination - facebook group test site:

Please join the group and answer questions posted about future.

This is a Facebook group set up to test response to our project idea and gauge possible public interest in the project. Please share the link with your friends and share your answers.

Pecha Kucha 20x20

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:28:28 +0000

Pecha Kucha 20x20

Cascade work is blogged about on Jotta

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:21:02 +0000

Cascade work is blogged about on Jotta

Ha Made by Po Picture! Good Job!!!

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:20:14 +0000

Ha Made by Po Picture!

Good Job!!!

Talk about ‘Museum of Human Imagination’ by Jay...

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:31:00 +0000

Talk about ‘Museum of Human Imagination’ by Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination

Andy

Blog - Inside Museum of Human Imagination Interview

TED

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:30:27 +0000

TED

I plan to do the following by the bfi: Fill in funding applications (start at least) Write/make...

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:47:00 +0000

I plan to do the following by the bfi:

Fill in funding applications (start at least)

Write/make funding section of presentation - possible avenues, what we are doing now, etc

Write up some of best answers of interviews – for big question/answer montage for presentation

Email designers/artists/organisations for possible interest / collaboration - to mention in presentation

Andy

How to become a Registered Charity

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:25:16 +0000

How to become a Registered Charity:

After reading through this, it may be unlikely as we need to have an annual income of £5,000 a year.

Jill

NESTA - Starter for 6

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:19:39 +0000

NESTA - Starter for 6:

This is a great organisation but sadly this is for those north of the border but I thought id post it anyway….

Jill

F u n d i n g .

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:50:00 +0000

I posted a few links for possible funding options. Some of them you must be registered charity - so may not be able to apply (unless we register - i don’t know if it costs, etc?)

They look good and are mostly interested in cultural ideas that involved people, etc.

Shall we apply? Do we need to finalise concepts and plans for MOI first?

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - innovation fund

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:45:35 +0000

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - innovation fund

Clore Duffield Foundation - main grants

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:44:37 +0000

Clore Duffield Foundation - main grants

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - open grants and more

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:38:00 +0000

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - open grants and more

jerwood charitable foundation - small/large grants

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:32:36 +0000

jerwood charitable foundation - small/large grants

Photo

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:27:13 +0000

Progress

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:16:08 +0000

Hello,
Just to update me, obie and dominika progress.
We have broken the content into three sections
1. Children and workshops that could be done in schools or other locations2. Online community the responses we get back from the questions set, these could be more relating to design & science.3. The general public… this would be areas set up in the city maybe where we are exhibiting some work that would also have booths that allow the public to respond to a political or social question.

We wanted to use the name museum I thought we really have to use the name ‘museum’ to help us bring our ideas in a bit.
so we thought museum and archiving, archiving ‘what people thought cars would look like in the future in may 2011’ for example
so there would be a timeline of responses so its actually a really good resource of information. Dominika thought it would be a good idea to document some of the past ideas about subjects as well, but still keep to our original idea of asking people what they think something will be like in the future. As people think more abstractly and creatively when asked about the future, because there isnt really a wrong answer and it relates to the brief of being optimistic in the future.
we have broken down the work further, so
Obie - logo design Dominika - online timeline and how the website could look cut up into 3 sectionsKayleigh - mocking up three possible outcomes 1. workshops 2. online 3. installation- in the city
we are also setting up a facebook group and twitter thing to help us test our ideas for the online content.
So we are guessing someone is working on the how, so possible collaborations and chairities, and how the making of ideas is going to work , so maybe some input from colleges and maybe eventually companies, who might also want to sponsor a question.
And Im guessing someone is also working on the presentation at some point?

ImaginationLab

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:21:56 +0000

ImaginationLab

Museum of Imagination. Online, offline, or a bit of both?

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:37:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’ve been thinking about our concept for the Museum of Imagination, and the feedback that we got last Monday. One of the key things that came up was how exactly this museum is going to work - is it online? What’s the relevance of the shapes? Is it offline? Why do the event after 12 months? And so on. I really like the fact that the only limit is our own imagination.

Whenever I think about it I keep being reminded of a “museum” that I saw in Switzerland. Instead of being in one building, the museum was spread across the entire city of Thun, with little mini exhibits all over the place. They’d made really good use of the space, and created tiny exhibition spaces wherever they could. You’d stumble across them completely by accident, whilst just walking around the city, and because they were well branded you’d start to recognise them after you’d seen one or two. Despite this good branding, I unfortunately I cannot remember the name (it was in German!), and no matter how much Google searching I do I can’t seem to find any pictures of it.

I was wondering if maybe we could do a similar thing with the Museum of Imagination? As well as being online (which I think is essential) we could also create intrigue and get people involved by having little exhibition spaces spread across a city (or country?). Although, instead of finding a space and putting our own “exhibits” in it, it would be really nice to find a blank space, and then invite the public to fill the space with their own ideas, and that then forms the exhibition itself. For example, we could find a blank wall, or a blank space, or whatever, and put a question there: “What inventions will we have in the future?” And then wait and see what people respond with, be it drawings, paintings, messages, objects, or anything - who knows! It would be just like a tangible version of the online museum, where people can post their ideas, and other people can add to them or add their own, and get people thinking about the future.

Maybe we’d need to get a few people to start filling the space first, to encourage people, and show them what they’re supposed to do (just like a busker might put down a few coins in his own guitar case to say “look, other people have put coins here, you should too”).

It’s just one idea, but I’d love to know what you all think of it. How might you expand on it, improve it, etc? What’s your own vision for the Museum of Imagination?

by Matt Young

creative business

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:14:37 +0100

creative business

Education funding

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:15:47 +0100

Education funding