The Logic of Participation in Museum Learning Designs

The Logic of Participation in Museum Learning Designs Palmyre Pierroux conference, September 22, 2009 National Portrait Gallery, London, June 2008

Overview

Participatory trends and user-led communication

GIDDER - learning designs, cell phones and social media

Dilemmas and disconnects

CONTACT - design and transformation

'Participating in networks' 3,085,384 photos 80,600 videos ...visitors document museum encounters 'Participating in networks'

'Where the publics are' ...branding and marketing

'Soliciting participation' ...museum blog entries

'A network for us and the museum' ...chat rooms and forums with curators and other visitors

'Networks for building collective memory' ...commenting and tagging collection items

Interactions & interfaces ...multi-touch tables, phones

Content - knowledge representations ... walls, mini-projectors, augmented reality

GIDDER: Groups in digital dialogues ...mediating role of artefacts, interactions, technologies, and institutional practices

Gidder: Groups in digital dialogues Pre-visit : log in, explore art and information in wiki Museum visit : discuss art, blog information Post-visit : reflect, write

Xue Tao, Rope Coil , 2006 Courtesy of the artist and Contrasts Gallery, Beijing Blog entry sent by mobile phone during museum visit

Version 8 Version 9 Wikis show history of collaboration

General findings and 'dilemmas'

mobile blogging motivates reflection and engages students with art works in situ

blog texts are relevant resources in post-visit activities

wikis harness participation and can scaffold collaboration on shared tasks

But learning is intertwined with...

teacher/curator, the task, and the institutional setting

Dilemmas in user-led communication: the disconnect

Nina Simone: Museum 2.0 blog

Monday, April 20, 2009

Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies ?

...stereotypes flying in many directions—that curators won’t give up authority, that technologists don’t respect traditional museum practice, that educators are too preachy, that marketers just want to get more live bodies in the door.

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/04/avoiding-participatory-ghetto-are.html

CONTACT: Communicating Organizations in Networks of Art and Cultural Heritage Technologies

...exploring how technologies create new dialogical spaces in museums and cultural heritage organizations.

EXHIBNET: Exhibition Communication and Information Networks The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Lead Researcher: Dr. Palmyre Pierroux ARCHAEONET : Open Archaeology Networks Historical Museum, UiO Lead Researcher: PhD student Ingvild S. Andreassen TRANGO: Transformation in Cultural Heritage NGOs Norwegian Cultural Heritage Association Lead Researcher: Dr. Dagny Stuedahl

CONTACT