Emerging Spaces for Participant Innovation in Museums
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The 'Digital Natives' project explores how contemporary museums can engage younger audiences with cultural heritage through digital technology and participatory design. Involving teenagers, anthropologists, and interaction designers, the initiative aims to create interactive exhibitions that embrace public participation and co-creation of heritage experiences. It highlights the need for museums to adapt their curation and collaboration methods to harness the potential of digital technologies in democratizing the museum space.
Emerging Spaces for Participant Innovation in Museums
- 3. NODEM
- 4. Content: 1. INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND 2. METHODOLOGY, WORKFLOW and IMPLEMENTATION 3. ANALYSIS 4. SUMMARY
- 5. Digital Natives: Designing Heritage Centre for Participatory IT, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 6. Designing Heritage for a Digital Culture The Challenge: Contemporary museums are under pressure in terms of attracting and engaging audiences in new ways. They are exploring how digital technologies and media can capture their audiences, especially the younger part of the population, in issues of culture and heritage. In doing so, these institutions must relate themselves – not just to the technologies – but to peoples everyday ‘digital cultures’, in order to understand and create ways of involving audiences as co-creators of heritage issues and experiences. ‘Digital Natives’ is an interactive exhibition project exploring futures and innovations of cultural communication. The project involved collaboration between a group of teenagers, anthropologists and interaction designers. It was based on a design-anthropological approach interweaving understandings of cultural heritage and contemporary digital cultures through the design process as well as the final exhibition with the aim of creating participatory dialogical spaces and connections between museum space, exhibition and audiences. Rachel Charlotte Smith is an anthropologist and PhD scholar in anthropology and interaction design at the Centre for Participatory IT, Aarhus University, Denmark. She studies how digital technologies can provide new ways of engaging audiences in cultural heritage communication, within the field of design anthropology. Ole Sejer Iversen is a Professor in child-computer interaction at the Centre for Participatory IT, Aarhus University. His research focuses on theory and practices of designing engaging interactive technologies for and with children, in the fields of Scandinavian Participatory Design and interaction design.
- 7. Digital Natives Project Dialogic Participatory Design approach • Contemporary heritage • Everyday digital cultures • Emerging digital heritage Participatory process • 7 ‘digital natives’ (16-19y) • 11 interaction designers • 2 anthropologists • Partners: CAVI, Alexandra Institute, Moesgård Museum, Innovation Lab, Kunsthal Aarhus Engaging exhibition • 5 interactive installations • public engagement in art museum • special events, museum community, schools Project • EU research funding • Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- 8. Cultural Cultural Audience People’s (heritage) representation experiences everyday institutions practices
- 9. Digital Natives dogma 1.The audience have a central role in shaping content and experiences in the exhibition. 2. The museum experience is addresses as a a socially engaging experience. 3. Communication should be dialogical, but not necessarily true. 4. The exhibition is processual and constantly changing. 5. The exhibition takes point of departure in young peoples everyday experiences 6. The project creates new layers and experiences between the exhibition and the city of Aarhus. 7. Objects/artefacts in the exhibition should be touchable and used as props for action. 8. The central installations depend upon digital and interactive technologies.
- 10. DIGITAL NATIVES Points of departure Cultural/ Digital Natives Experiential/ Audiences Technological/ Designers
- 11. Vision-based Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 The future Match- Scenarios Mock-ups Prototypes Exhibition museum making Questions • What does future cultural heritage communication look like? • How do we create exhibitions that can engage young people? • How do we use new interactive technologies for doing this?
- 12. Exploring the Natives Match-making: natives + designers • Who are the digital natives? • What does their everyday look like and how do they understand their worlds? • How do the youngsters use and relate to the digital technologies?
- 13. Matchmaking: teenagers & designers Soundscapes Troels Google My Head The Natives Troels/Johan Anne/Metha P1 P1 DUL P2 Ole, Christian P1 Talkaoke Read Me Anne CAVI ALEXANDRA Morten/Storm Liselott, Claus Karsten,Jens, Jesper P1 P1 P2 P2 Portraits of ’00 Catwalk Yourself Lil/Ida Martin
- 15. Lil’s Digital Poster DIGITAL NATIVES FOCUS - Emerging digital practices - Exploring everyday communication - Experimenting with forms of representation PROCESS - 7 ‘natives’ (16-19y) - 10 interaction designers - 2 anthropologists
- 17. Google My Head DIGITAL NATIVES
- 19. DJ Station DIGITAL NATIVES FOCUS - Emerging digital practices - Exploring everyday communication - Experimenting with forms of representation PROCESS - 7 ‘natives’ (16-19y) - 10 interaction designers - 2 anthropologists
- 20. The Digital (Natives) Exhibition What happened inside the exhibition … Fragmented narratives and emergent stories – multiple perspectives came alive No separation between exhibition content and technologies – digital materials No separation between process and exhibition – dialogue continues in the exhibition Audiences as co-creators of experiences – connecting to everyday practices Multiple layers of subjective (individual/social) engagement – empowering audiences Oscillations between digital, material and virtual – producing new heritage
- 21. Rethinking the museum through digital technology The benefits of digital technologies …is their large potential to connect audiences’ everyday lives and with heritage matters in museums, motivating audiences to actively participate in exhibitions. Use of digital technology, highlighting people’s everyday practices, entails a shift from communicating cultural heritage, to designing platforms for collective action and dialogue. Digital technologies are characterised by dialogic forms of communication, which democratizes the museum space, and can create new engaging experiences. The challenge for museums …is to rethink ways of curating and collaborating in interdisciplinary fields (of e.g. design, anthropology, people, artists), and with audiences in exhibition development and in museum spaces, to find ways of creating new forms of heritage. This dialogic work process is highly unpredictable and demands many resources. It can be carried out as small/large-scale experiments in which museum organisations are willing to run the risk, of both failure and innovation in digital cultural heritage.
- 22. Challenges of the ‘digital’ How do emerging technologies effect and transform our conceptualization of cultural heritage, the museum and the audience? How do we engage audiences in co-creating experiences and constructions of cultural heritage in and through technologies in meaningful ways?
Editor's Notes
- #7: Relation between anthropology and design Practice, possible futures, innovation, cultural processes & practices, identity, communities, culture & technology, creation Innovation in cultural heritage communicationCommunication strategies, new technologies, social & interactive media, immaterial heritage, identity, contemporary cultural processes, audiences
- #9: jj
- #11: We try to work from three points of departure simultaneously – through the design process. the challenge is to do it new ways - try to address this in new ways.It could have said – anthropological theory – interaction design –One of the big challenges is the fact that
- #13: Hvis vi skal lave en udstilling, derkanengagerer de unge, ogsomovenikøbet handler omdem – såer vi nødttil at forståhvem de er???
- #14: P1/2: Lil/Ida troede de havde match med CAVI, men CAVIs ideer blev ikke rigtig tydelige for Ida, og de virkede ikke så interesserede I deres ideer. Ud af dem der var der, virkede Alexandra som bedste match. Men ikke oplagt.Alexandra svært ved at placerer deres post-it. Tjek CAVIs prioriteter