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Table of Contents

Preface: Why Participate?

Part 1: Design for Participation

Chapter 1: Principles of Participation

Chapter 2: Participation Begins with Me

Chapter 3: From Me to We

Chapter 4: Social Objects

Part 2: Participation in Practice

Chapter 5: Defining Participation at Your Institution

Chapter 6: Contributing to Institutions

Chapter 7: Collaborating with Visitors

Chapter 8: Co-creating with Visitors

Chapter 9: Hosting Participants

Chapter 10: Evaluating Participatory Projects

Chapter 11: Managing and Sustaining Participation

Imagining the Participatory Museum

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the Author