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Hello,



Please see details of a 1 day free CPD day at Great North Museum in Newcastle on 22 March. Please contact Michael McHugh directly if you have queries or would like more information.



Thanks,

Verity



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From: Museums Association members in Yorkshire [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael McHugh

Sent: 15 February 2018 07:38

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Subject: 1 Day FREE CPD Try New Things & Think about the Future @Great North Museum 22 March



TNT (Try New Things) & Think about the Future Great North Museum Thursday 22 March 10.30am - 4.30pm FREE



https://greatnorthmuseum.org.uk



A dynamic one day professional development workshop for museum professionals, creative producers and heritage & culture organisations based in the North of England. Led by John V Willshire from strategic design unit Smithery and hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.



How do museums, heritage organisations and cultural institutions remain relevant in a world that is experiencing rapid social and technological change? 



How can we future proof our organisations and create innovative new public programmes? 



How can museum professionals, creative producers and staff from cultural organisations in the North of England adapt their practice in a precarious funding environment whilst retaining artistic ambition and strategic vision? 



How can we embrace creative risk, strategic design thinking and experimentation? 



This will be an exciting and inspiring full day of prototyping, design thinking, creative ideation and engaging activity. You will learn essential futuring skills, explore micro- and macro-trends, examine innovative practices and processes - traditional top-down, bottom-up and open innovation and how these are being used by large organisations and cutting edge independent start ups.



If the 20th Century was about making people want things then the 21st is all about making things that people want.



This workshop will equip you with all the necessary tools and practical strategies you’ll need in order to create and deliver diverse, innovative and relevant public programmes across the next decade.



This is a free one day CPD open to museums, art galleries, heritage organisations, 3rd sector, voluntary organisations, creative producers, researchers and post graduates. 



Booking is essential and places will be limited. We encourage participants from larger organisations to bring colleagues, collaborators and community partners. 



Lunch and refreshments provided.



For more details email [log in to unmask] Register here >>> https://trynewthings.eventbrite.co.uk



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John V Willshire



Founder of Smithery, a strategic design unit based in London. Since forming in 2011 they have been on mission to help companies make things people want, rather than make people want things. 



The work at Smithery spans many disciplines, but is formed around a broad territory of strategy, design, culture change, and prototyping. Central to this work has been establishing a new form of ‘appropriate design’.



Based on the concept of developing a metastrategy (a strategy of strategies), this means that rather than attempting to seek out and implement the one ‘right’, organisations must instead be versed in many different approaches. Helping organisations learn to adopt the most appropriate stance, through a system of movement, layers and loops, means creating compelling innovation projects where the experience takes hold within the organisation. One of the tools designed for this approach, Artefact Cards, have grown to become a successful range of different creative tools for ideas practitioners and companies across the globe.

The beneficiaries of this approach include LEGO, BBC, Konica Minolta, Experian, the British Council, The Science Museum, Vodafone, Lloyds Bank, Google, Carlsberg, University of Glasgow, University of Stirling, the FSA and the V&A.



http://smithery.com/speaking/





TNT (Try New Things)



TNT or Try New Things is a responsive R&D/Action-Research methodology and internal programme established by a mix of departmentally disparate staff from across Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. It aims to connect new ideas, energy and generosity across the service and with participation from all staff; develop innovative  museum practice, encourage collaboration across disciplines and test out small scale public programming and audience development.



https://www.museumnext.com/insight/turning-digital-thinking-into-museum-practice/



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