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Org Design in Practice

Your Organization on Display:
A Museum-Inspired Method for Breaking Assumptions
and Prototyping Change

Isabella Bruno – Lab for Radical Museum Futures

Isabella Bruno is Lead Navigator at the Lab for Radical Museum Futures, where she helps cultural workers collectively reimagine institutions through futures thinking, speculative design, and community-building approaches. She specializes in translating museum practice—particularly the challenge of stewarding irreplaceable history while continuously evolving—into organizational transformation methodology.
Isabella brings almost two decades of museum experience, including at the Smithsonian Institution where she developed frameworks for participatory professional development, designed exhibitions, and measured learning impact across diverse institutional contexts. Her work emphasizes embodied learning, collective imagination, and building communities of practice.
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Museums have been continuously evolving while preserving what matters for centuries—your clients are trying to do the same thing. This hands-on workshop translates museum practice into organization design methodology, culminating in a collective “Museum of Obsolete Practices” that shows, not just tells, stories about organizational change

The era of ‘plan, design, implement’ is over. Organizations must continuously evolve while preserving what matters. Museums have been doing this for centuries.

Museum practice offers organization designers a unique lens, how do you steward irreplaceable elements while connecting the present to multiple possible futures? This workshop introduces the Futures Triangle—weight of past, push of present, pull of future—and shows how we can transform this tension into methodology.

Through collaborative exhibition design, we’ll build a “Museum of Obsolete Practices” together. You’ll experience how physical, embodied work with objects and space can show, not just tell, stories about organizational change—making transformation visible, discussable, and strategically actionable.

Participants will:

  • Diagnose organizational gridlock using the Futures Triangle framework
  • Surface hidden assumptions through museum-inspired curation techniques
  • Design collective experiences where clients discover their own transformation pathways
  • Honor institutional memory while consciously choosing what evolves
  • Walk away with a toolkit of templates, scripts, and facilitation method

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