WEBINAR — Feeling stuck on the path to inclusion? While museums and museum designers increasingly recognize the importance of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA), it’s not always clear how to translate that intention into action. In this webinar, we explore how to holistically move from embracing IDEA principles to driving sustainable change within our organizations, museum spaces, and communities. Nicolle Figueroa Rosado (Big Break Foundation) and Summer Martin (Andiron) share their expertise on implementing IDEA strategies and fostering sustainable progress. A Q&A session follows the discussion.

Moderated by Trent Oliver, President and Chief Instigator of Blue Telescope.

PODCAST—Secrets of Creative Collaboration with Trent Oliver

How do we keep cultural projects from going off the rails, without sacrificing creativity? It’s not impossible. In fact, there are some simple secrets to unlock the process. (Except now they won’t be secrets anymore.) Media design expert Trent Oliver joins host Jonathan Alger on Making the Museum, the podcast, to discuss the Secrets of Creative Collaboration. Trent brings her theatrical experience as an equity stage manager to her work creating visitor experiences. Turns out, theater has a lot to teach us.

WEBINAR — Like a circus, experience design can be thrilling and magical.

But it can also be, well, kind of a circus. How do you make sure there’s someone to catch the person leaping from the trapeze at just the right moment? Especially when the spotlight is on?

In this webinar, Trent Oliver of Blue Telescope shares process insights, collaboration tools, and best practices for working with all of the various members of an extended experience design team:

• when (and how!) to loop in each of your collaborators with confidence

• how to maintain a “single version of the truth” across distributed teams

• how to manage approvals, budgets, and all of the potentially dangerous backflips

• … and, most importantly, how not to lose sight of your dreams.

Moderated by Steven Rosen, President & Creative Director of Available Light. Q&A session follows the presentation.

WEBINAR — A budget is the foundation of a project, yet there is often confusion or lack of confidence about how to establish a target budget, and what elements must be considered. Is it Alchemy? Do you have a Franken-budget? Are there ghouls waiting in the wings to kill your project?

Mysteries Revealed! Watch this webinar that features a panel of experienced museum project planners as they explore the process for setting conceptual target budgets, explain what sort of analysis should occur prior to setting budgets, and discuss many items to consider when embarking on such a journey. The panel will share benchmarking data from REAL (not graveyard) PROJECTS (no names of course), and talk about why googling “how much should a museum or exhibition cost” is a career-threatening action. Q&A session follows the presentation.

ARTICLE — An article on considering visitor needs when employing digital technology by Trent Oliver, Principal of Blue Telescope.