Positive Projects // Projecting Positivity

I've decided to take a little "break" from paying too much attention to the news because it makes me unhappy.

So for this post, I've decided to highlight two different museum/cultural projects that focus on the happiness and well-being of museum visitors and cultural consumers.

The Reasons To Be Cheerful website is an interactive mapped compendium of projects around the world arranged by topics such as Energy, Health, Culture, and Education. You zoom around the map to find out more about the people and groups moving projects forward to make a better world.

Worth checking out by clicking here.

As stated on the Happy Museum website, the project "supports museum practice that places wellbeing within an environmental and future-facing frame, rethinking the role that museums can play in creating more resilient people, places, and planet. Through action research, academic research, peer networking and training it supports institutional and community wellbeing and resilience in the face of global challenges."

The Happy Museum website is well-stocked with resources and thoughtful findings that can provide ways of moving your institution or personal practice toward supporting institutional and community wellbeing and resilience in the face of global financial and environmental challenges.

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Design Inspiration: Sui Park's Cable Tie Creations

One of my favorite definitions of creativity is "using familiar things in unfamiliar ways."  By that criteria, Sui Park is truly creative.

Sui Park is a New York-based artist born in Seoul, Korea. Her work involves creating 3-dimensional biomorphic shapes out of industrial materials like cable ties.

What kinds of familiar materials or ideas could you use in unfamiliar ways?  

Click on over to Sui Park's website to see more of her work and gather some creative design inspiration.

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