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design for participation: lessons from museums nina simon, museum 2.0 [email protected] @ninaksimon on twitter slides at http://bit.ly/baychinina
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design for participation:lessons from museums
nina simon, museum [email protected]
@ninaksimon on twitter
slides at http://bit.ly/baychinina
where i live
what i dobalboa park online collaborativeboston children’s museum calgary science centerchabot space science centerchicago history museumdenver art museumexperience music projectgirls math and science partnershipinternational spy museummonterey bay aquariumoakland museumSFMOMA smithsonian museum of natural historystatens museum for kunsttech museum of innovation
the participatory institution is a place where visitors can create, share, and connect with each other around content.
what i focus on
in cultural institutions, that can mean...
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museumlower: Science Museum of Minnesota
Minnesota History Museum
and it requires some changes
Authority is content provider Authority is platform provider
how do you design a space to support
community engagement & meaningful visitor
participation?
three core challenges on the web
✴ participation inequality
✴ variable quality amateur content
✴ limited tools for social interaction
three design techniques
✴ scaffold participation
✴ design for thoughtful response
✴ design from “me” to “we”
three design techniques
✴ scaffold participation
✴ design for thoughtful response
✴ design from “me” to “we”
90,000 visitors, 37,000 posters made
average time poster-making: 25 minutes
social participation also requires scaffolding
GoMA
Statens Museum of Kunst
three design techniques
✴ scaffold participation
✴ design for thoughtful response
✴ design from “me” to “we”
web 2.0 is software that gets better the more people use it
-Tim O’Reilly, technologist and publisher
Minnesota History MuseumAuckland Museum
turning trash into data
Worcester City Gallery and Museum
an exhibit that gets better the more people use it?
Chicago History Museum Staff of Life grocery store
all of this hinges on responsiveness
Ontario Science Centre
and asking good questions
DAISY: How do I know I'm talking to a human and not just another machine? DAISY: Are you sure that I'm not a real person talking to you by e-mail? What would it take to convince you?
EXPLORATORIUM
Lowell National Historical Park
three design techniques
✴ scaffold participation
✴ design for thoughtful response
✴ design from “me” to “we”
less like this more like this
Photo by cybertoad on Flickr
who are you relative to the institution?
social infrastructure for interaction
Advice, University of Washington
I’ve never had a gay friend. It was unbelievably exciting to find myself facing him with his body, opinions and identity. It seems he was not very different from me and especially he was not an alien. From now on, I will not disrupt my communication with the gays, I will enhance it.
- Reader in Istanbul, 2007
the participatory institution is a place where visitors can create, share, and connect with each other around content.*
* it doesn’t have to be a museum
what’s next?
creative, interactive, content-rich social objects
venue that encourages interpersonal engagement +
BAR MUSEUM
