BEYOND THE

digital
guide
.

cultural objects
gallery spaces &
mobile devices

Ross Parry and Alex Moseley University of Leicester
When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …

?
When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …
being in-gallery

?
When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …
being in-gallery
being proximate to collections

?
The postdigital museum
The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles

the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production
The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles

the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production

strategising for a multiplatform future
no need for digital to be strategised separately
The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles

the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production

strategising for a multiplatform future
no need for digital to be strategised separately

Ross Parry, 'The End of the Beginning: Normativity in the Postdigital
Museum', Museum Worlds, vol. 1 (2013), 24-39.
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narrator
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communicator
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contexts

device
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play
study
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follow
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subject
collection
display
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database
map
guide
narrator
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recorder
communicator
viewer
controller
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When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …
When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …
- more control over staging and framing
When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …
- more control over staging and framing
- acknowledging the visitor’s commitment
to a visit event
Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge
Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge
- touch is possible
Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge
- touch is possible
- physical collaboration and interaction between
visitors becomes possible
Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …
Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …
- creative blends and augmentations
of digital and physical
Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …
- creative blends and augmentations
of digital and physical
- a different physical relationship
with (and new metaphors for)
mobile devices
BEYOND THE

digital
guide
.

cultural objects
gallery spaces &
mobile devices

Ross Parry School of Museum Studies University of Leicester

Beyond the Digital Guide: cultural objects, gallery spaces and mobile devices