The Art of Relevance | Nina Simon | TEDxPaloAlto

Nina Simon has been called a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine and a Silicon Valley Business Journal “40 under 40” for her audience-centered approach to design. She is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, where she led an institutional turnaround based on grassroots community participation. Nina is the best-selling author of The Participatory Museum (2010), The Art of Relevance (2016) and the popular Museum 2.0 blog. Previously, Nina worked as an independent consultant and exhibition designer with over one hundred museums and cultural centers around the world. Nina began her career at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. She lives off the grid in the Santa Cruz mountains with 14 people, 27 chickens, 5 dogs, and 1 zipline.
This talk was part of TEDxPaloAlto Identity, held on April 2, 2017. For more information about TEDxPaloAlto please visit www.tedxpaloalto.com.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@applemnki]

I am a new MLIS student and I think Nina Simon is just incredible. Great talk.

[@nataliacoli2604]

Fantastic content and presentation, useful for non-profit organisations and businesses alike even beyond the arts and cultural sector. Thank you Nina!

[@O.D.A._Band]

Why only 577 likes? This and others by Nina Simon are so relevant for Museums and other public services.

[@sonusingh-zr6xw]

Meaningful and relevant talk.

[@natkendall-taylor1852]

Great talk. Great content very well presented. I learned something! and am smarter for having watched this. Lots to learn here. Thank you, Nina Simon! You are very relevant.

[@JeffPittman]

Buying your book!

[@GJOville]

Interesting!

[@KLASSCULTURE]

TFS!!!

[@swordsinging1709]

Wow, Palo Alto! That is where Michael Hedges wrote the imeasurable song "Aerial Boundaries" Boy I sure hope this video becomes more relevant. A couple of like and some views. Very good advice on being honest with the gift you have and asking yourself, how can I use this to help others. In turn that seed can multiply and bear much fruit. Great presentation.

[@janetownley]

"Relevant" doesn't mean "lots of likes and views", friend :-)

[@Yacoub263]

How to reach some one out by using relevant tags without direct contact 🤔 . I want to make someone feel like a ghost 😂.

[@Yacoub263]

👀

[@janetownley]

Creepy

[@SiningBride]

Nina Simon is called a "museum visionary". So I understand that museums that worked or will work with her, are not interested in polish-american participatory engagement or selling tickets to Poles? I'm suprised that someone who is using polonophobic rhetorics ( accusing polish nation of extermination) can be a role model in cultral managemnt and call themselfs an "advocate for community-driven institutions "? Hypocrisy has so many layers.