Open innovation for education and museums
Tangible interactions and online collaborations : exchange, create and learn.

Erasme
Digital innovation for
 Education
 Museums
 Aging
in France, close to Lyon

How can cultural institutions use digital
technologies to work with schools ?
- On the web
- In their physical space.

Case of Art Education
• Artists in residence
– Very interesting and effective
– but expensive
– Fewer national foundings
– Require lots of organisation for schools
• Could technology help ?

Act 1 : First, do it
Let an artist work with 2 classes simultaneously

Act 2 : Discuss it
Did it work ? Is it useful ? What didn't work ?

• Very difficult to set up
• Lots of technical issues : need technicians on both
sides
• Remote synchronisation of classrooms is a real pain
But
• teachers loved to introduce an artist in their class
• Strong interest in working with several schools :
cooperation in art can be rewarding

Act 3 : Redesign it
and try again...

• Be asynchronous
• Several classes together : collaboration and
sharing
• Low tech
• Mix distance and presence
• a collaborative website
• a one page website
• Real encounter at the beginning and the end of
the year, remote exchanges rest of the time

• During 4 years
• 16 classes each year
• have published around 100 different
compositions
• Each year a Lionnel Marchetti concert
• And meetings with each classe

Act 4 : adapt and spread

Michel Méral : bd.laclasse.com
Comics creation

Michel Méral : bd.laclasse.com
Comics creation

Michel Méral : bd.laclasse.com
Comics creation

Michel Méral : bd.laclasse.com
Comics creation

Valérie Moënne : animation movie

Sebastien Joanniez : Writer

Now : projects lead by cultural centers

In the physical space of museums ?
• Specific places to share knowledge
• Need to offer a physical experience

Attention & interaction
Screens help to focus attention...
...for the one who interact
They can compete with museum staff also...

Attention & interaction
Shared screen
+ shared interaction
= shared attention

Multitouch and multi-users

Immersive environments
• Good for involving people
• Bad for their understanding
• Understanding needs some distance

Making information tangible
• Objects that you can feel and touch help to
memorize
• They give value to the museum experience
• Through gestures the body interact with the
brain

 Touch / Feel Globe Inuit
 Digitaly augmented objects

Hide technology / Show poetry
Ez3chiel : les mécaniques poétiques

Ez3chiel : les mécaniques poétiques

Objects and rules
• Museum staff spend energy enforcing rules for
groups
• Technology can deal with that
• Example : Internet of things and sensitive
museums

Papas del Peru / Musée des Confluences

Papas del Peru / Musée des Confluences

Objet en transit / Musée des Confluences

Technologies & learning
• On line
– Asynchronous
– Long time projects
– Cooperation
– Open the classroom to the world
• In the museum space
– Multiusers
– Involving
– Tangible
– Helping dealing with groups and complexity
• Both are enforcing a relation

Could we mix a rich interactive on site
experience and long online work ?

Novaterrae : search of an exoplanet
• Preparing an interactive exhibition on possible
life on other planets
• With a science fiction author, scientists and a
planetarium
• 4 classes just have be sent into space...
• Imagination and collaboration help us prepare
the future real exhibition

Open innovation
On the web or in the physical space, same process :
• User centric design
• Involve users in the innovation process
• Iterative and open
– To new technologies
– To user input
– Always on going

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Yves-Armel Martin / yamartin@erasme.org twitter.com/yam