Notes of a discussion of this principle from the Happy Museum paper at the Symposium This principle inspired a wide-ranging discussion. The starting point was the kind of relationship with which, whether as a museum or funder, we were all familiar – a partnership, probably established for a particular project, perhaps motivated by the need […]
Read More →It was acknowledged that resilience was often pigeon-holed as a funding issue and it was key to see resilience in a broader context of global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and fiscal instability ? and to look at residence beyond the doors of the institution. In that context, how can museums support individual, […]
Read More →Here is a summary of this Happy Museum Paper principle at the symposium ?Think global, act local’, should be a guide for museums in transition. Whilst most museums might best support well-being in a specific locality, all could increase the extent to which they make international links, use digital tools to reach wider audiences and […]
Read More →The following is a summary of discussion of this principle at the 2012 symposium How do we decide what matters? Different things matter to different people. It’s important to decide what matters to your project from the beginning and remember, you don’t have to measure everything! How do we measure? Using what methods? At the […]
Read More →Back in January I went to another Action for Happiness event, having previously blogged about my take onHenry Stewart’s Happy Manifesto back in November. This time, it was new economics foundationstatistician and Happy Planet Index guru Nic Marks. I don’t want to tell you all of what Nic said: he does this very well for himself on TED. Also, it […]
Read More →A blog from Hannah Guthrie of the London Transport Museum Commission Project about her experience at a recent Operation Green Museum event. One concern expressed at the Happy Museum symposium in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago was the potential disconnect between the concepts of wellbeing and social sustainability versus that of environmental sustainability. It […]
Read More →We will shortly be publishing a full report on the first Happy Museum Symposium held in Suffolk last week – but in the meantime the following piece by Tony Butler (published on Guardian Cultural Professionals HERE) and the various blogs referenced within are a good starting point to the challenging discussions that took place. Last […]
Read More →The Office of National Statistics is now consulting on the first set of national well-being* measures and the Happy Museum Project is shocked to see that the current proposals do not propose including specific measures relating to Arts, culture and heritage. The first warning signal comes in the document’s footer which lists the following government […]
Read More →On 22nd November Steve Gardam from the Happy Museum Commission at London Transport Museum went to an Action for Happiness event at Cass Business School in London, to hear Henry Stewart talk about happiness at work. Henry has just written a new book ? ?The Happy Manifesto’ ? based on his experiences of running a […]
Read More →Over the coming 12 months we will be blogging pieces focused around the 8 principles of the manifesto in the Happy Museum Paper – here, in no particular order, is the first piece from Tony Butler relating to Principle 6 – Lead on innovation towards transition Last week saw a concerted effort to promote engineering […]
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