The tedious rigour of making playful experiences

See flowers, not owls — rethinking contemporary curatorship

Reflections on “Symposium on Family Learning, Inclusion and the value of play in Museums”

Weighing in on museum definitions

Classifying museums and adjacent fields is really hard — some…

Major projects: sustained glow or brief firework?

Lexical bloat wasting energy on hot air

The museum sector is cursed with terminological inexactitude yet clings with stubborn fixity to words for status and power. We continually debate: what is or isn’t an ‘exhibition’, or a ‘curator’? Why do museums get so stuck in this?

Project culture — setting concept design expectations

A core belief of mine is that the ecology (people, processes, context, skills, tools, methods, standards) we build in and around an organisation shapes a project and then shapes outcomes. And leaders sharing clear expectations is a…

Critiquing culture sector KPIs via school socks

Benefit Realisation Planning

How do you make sure that the new museum / wing / store you are building delivers in the long term?