PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO MUSEUM DESIGN - DEPARTING FROM PEOPLES CULTURAL

PRACTICES

Dagny StuedahlDepartment of Educational Research/InterMedia

University of Oslo

• Design as an integral part of visitor experience, implications for structuring the nature of visitor experience – rather than simply providing a more or less attractive medium for presenting content (Macdonald 2007)

MUSEUM DESIGN

✦ content - technology - interaction assembly

✦ activities of engagement - modality of media

✦ agency of visitors and museum professionals

AGENCY IN MUSEUM ASSEMBLIES

Falk and Dierking 2000

Contextual model of learning

digital context

TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

✦ ubiquotos computing; assembling artefacts, embedding technology

✦ the mixed media approach;technology bringing new forms of interactions

✦ tangible computing; materiality and fabrics of technology, smart objects

✦ mobile computing; augmented layers

✦ social media; social and semiotic media practices

✦ collaborative co-design

✦ participatory design

✦ experimental zones

✦ physical

✦ longitudinal

✦ practice related

DESIGN EXPERIMENTS

Stuedahl, D. & Smørdal, O. 2011. Young Visitors’ ‘Messing Around’ in Museums. Exploring social media to engage teens in participation. BARN 3-4; Digitale medier i barn og unges hverdag, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, pp 169- 191

VIKINGSHIP MUSEUM/GOKSTADBOAT

✦ photographing as seeing

✦ photographs as tools for reflection

✦ educator need to think photos and photographing as part of the assemblage

VIKINGSHIP MUSEUM/GOKSTADBOAT

Stuedahl, D. & Smørdal, O. 2011. Designing for Young Visitors’ Co-composition of Doubts in Cultural Historical Exhibitions. Computers and Composition Special Issue from Oslo, Norway 28:3, pp. 215-223

VIKINGSHIP MUSEUM/GOKSTADBOAT

✦ practice and doubts

✦ hypothesis and questions

✦ shared process

NORWEGIAN MARITIME MUSEUM/BARCODE

NORWEGIAN MARITIME MUSEUM/BARCODE

NORWEGIAN MARITIME MUSEUM/BARCODE

NORWEGIAN MARITIME MUSEUM/BARCODE

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✦ experimental zone opened a collaborative space between departments

✦ a tool for processes

✦ visitors attracted by the embodied actions - the digital part difficult to understand

✦ placement of screens

NORWEGIAN MARITIME MUSEUM/BARCODE

CIRCULATING REFERENCES

THE DISTRIBUTED MUSEUM

AKERSELVA HISTORYWE WRITE TOGETHER

WORKSHOP

WALKSHOP

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CULTURAL PROBESGOAL:

to engage users in making esthetic expression of belonging and experiences

maps as tool to connect activity and place

PROJECT INFO

NAME CARD

TEKSTER FRA MUSEUM

TASKS

SNACKIPOD

PEN & PAPER

MAP

INSTAGRAM ALONG AKERSELVA

INSTAGRAM ALONG AKERSELVA

INSTAGRAM ALONG AKERSELVA

INSTAGRAM ALONG AKERSELVA

✦experiment with participation in new museum contexts✦the museum as participant✦semiotics of local history, belonging✦rewriting of museum content✦experimental case as mediator