The document discusses open authority and defines it as involving museum expertise, community contributions, and varying levels of open participation from crowdsourcing to co-creative interpretation. It also discusses the Reggio Emilia educational approach which focuses on the interests of children, rethinking student-teacher relationships, and the importance of community. Open authority is characterized as providing access to expertise, community participation, a platform, content to engage with, shared control and dialogue, a focus on process over product, and evidence of collaboration.

1. Lori Byrd Phillips | @LoriLeeByrd
MCN 2013, Montreal
Defining
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Open Authority

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3. Defining “Authority”
Authoritarian
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Authoritative

4. Defining “Open”
Given enough
eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow.

5. Museum
expertise
+
Community
contributions

6. A Spectrum of Open Authority
Contributory
Collaborative
Co-Creative
Open
Authority
Crowdsourcing
Tagging
Voting
Identifying
Transcribing
Community Sourcing
Memory Sharing
Community Blogging
Idea Generation / Dialogue
Sharing Media
Participatory
Interpretation
Reggio Emilia

7. The Reggio Emilia Approach

8. Led by the Interest of the Child

9. Rethinking the Student-Teacher
Relationship

10. The Importance of Community

11. Reggio in Action

12. A Community of Learners
{
“We have to participate
as a community,
together,
in order to get a full
perspective...
We’re building
empathy
from the beginning.”
- Susan Mackay

13. Open Authority: You’re Invited

14. Elements of Open Authority
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Access to expertise
 Community
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{
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participation
A platform
Content to engage with
Shared control &
dialogue
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A focus on process, not
product
Evidence of
collaboration