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The Space Before The Door, a keynote speech at the British Columbia Museum Association Conference 2016

This speech is a modified version of the paper “Intentional Civility” and includes the worksheets.  This is a useful paper for staff to look at their assumptions of normative behaviour in the

A CIVICALLY-MINDED CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

In 2010 I was invited to speak at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago under the direction of Madeleine Grynsztejn.  It was and remains an experimental art museum offering a diversity of

OFFERING SAFER PUBLIC SPACES

In 1995 a shortened version of OFFERING SAFER SPACES was published in the Journal of Museum Education (Volume 21, #1, Fall, 14-16).  It came from a much larger paper that I did not reread for

FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM; HOW MIXED USED SPACES IN MUSEUM BUILD COMMUNITY

This paper, published in Curator in 2001 (Curator 44/1, January 2001, pp 87-113) was written after I had carefully reread Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of the Great American City and real

THRESHOLD FEAR

I was asked to speak at a conference in Leicester Museum Studies Program organized by Suzanne MacLoed.  The version of the speech was published in “Reshaping Museum Space” published b

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