Shogren Consulting | Heritage, Museum & Cultural Planning

Welcome to Shogren Consulting! We are a forward thinking organizational consultancy that serves all of the nonprofit/ngo sector with a specialization in cultural and planning, cultural resource management, application of new technologies and a growing practice in sustainability. New content is always developing and being added to this site, so please check back ofter. And take a moment to tell us about yourself and why you came by registering with us for future updates! Thanks again, Sam Shogren & Associates

This was a fantastic conference organized, planned, and hosted by the graduate students in the Museology Program at the University of Washington. Close to 100 people attended representing museums and academic programs from both coasts, the Midwest, Canada and China!

Significant news for us here at Shogren Consulting is the warm reception for our Principal Sam Shogren’s paper titled: Museums, Starbucks and the Third Place Way: Civil Society and the Revisioned Museum. Presenting in the first general session, Sam’s concepts of museums as Third Places, curtailing construction of new museums to seek new community partnerships and the emphasis on sustainability were influential throughout the conference.

Look here shortly for a link to a version of the paper Sam presented.

Tags: arts & econmic development, arts economic impact, arts social impact, conferences, museums conference, Revisioning Museums, third place way, transforming museums, university of washington

Can the arts and culture play a central role in revitalizing American cities? Over the past decade, a number of cities have answered this question affirmatively. For the most part, they have turned to big-ticket downtown cultural districts as the strategy to expand their “creative economy.” At the same time, skeptics like Joel Kotkin have ridiculed this approach as the creation of “the ephemeral city” that ignores thefundamentals of good city-building for the illusion of urban vitality.

Cultivating Natural Cultural Districts

Tags: arts economic impact, arts managment, arts social impact, community planning, cultural districts, third places