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Design for User Participation: A Half Day Workshop
The document discusses participatory design strategies for museums, emphasizing the importance of visitor engagement through community creation, questioning, and diverse motivations. It outlines techniques for enhancing participation, including asking good questions and promoting dialogue around museum content. The author, Nina Simon, also highlights examples of successful participatory initiatives and the need for museums to evolve into platforms for collaboration and sharing.
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- 1. design for participation aworkshop at Museums and the Web nina simon, museum 2.0 nina@museumtwo.com @ninaksimon on twitter slides at http://bit.ly/MWnina
- 2. the plan introductions design theorywith activities project brainstorming
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- 4. what i do balboapark online collaborative boston children’s museum calgary science center chabot space science center chicago history museum denver art museum experience music project girls math and science partnership international spy museum monterey bay aquarium oakland museum SFMOMA smithsonian museum of natural history statens museum for kunst tech museum of innovation
- 5. what i focuson a participatory institution is a place where visitors can create, share, and connect with each other around content.
- 6. in cultural institutions,that can mean... Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museum Minnesota History Museum lower: Science Museum of Minnesota
- 7. Authority is contentprovider Authority is platform provider
- 8. why? participation does fivethings best: deliver personal relevance celebrate and network diverse voices deliver dynamic content encourage interpersonal dialogue support collaborative + creative practice Authority is platform provider
- 9. why? To be mostsatisfying, leisure should resemble the best aspects of work: challenges, skills and important relationships. Geoff Godbey, professor of leisure studies Pennsylvania State University Authority is platform provider
- 10. how? what are you about? what will these relationships look like? what do they need? Authority is platform provider
- 11. web 2.0 issoftware that gets better the more people use it -Tim O’Reilly, technologist and publisher
- 12. how can yourmuseum get better the more people participate?
- 13. an exhibit thatgets better the more people use it? Worcester City Gallery and Museum
- 14. four techniques for participatory engagement 1. ask good questions 2. design for diverse user motivation and behavior 3. support dialogue around museum content 4. move from contribution to community
- 15. four techniques for participatory engagement 1. ask good questions 2. design for diverse user motivation and behavior 3. support dialogue around museum content 4. move from contribution to community
- 16. WHERE WERE YOULAST NIGHT?
- 17. PHOTO BY NATHANINSANDIEGO,FLICKR (HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/NATHANINSANDIEGO/3455796359/)
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- 19. LESSON 1: MAKE SUREYOU CARE ABOUT THE ANSWER. TO YOUR QUESTION.
- 21. LESSON 2: MAKE THEQUESTION PERSONAL.
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- 23. DAISY: How doI 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
- 24. LESSON 3: ASK SPECULATIVEQUESTIONS.
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- 28. FRAMES EXPERIENCE SPECULATIVE WOULD YOU GO TO MARS? PERSONAL
- 29. Write down aquestion for which you have a genuine interest in knowing other peoples’ answers.
- 30. LESSON 4: SITUATE YOURQUESTION WISELY.
- 31. STORYCORPS BOOTH BYLOCAL PROJECTS CANADA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM
- 32. CHIC CHICAGO, CHICAGOHISTORY MUSEUM ADVICE, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STUDENT CENTER
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- 35. Take Action atthe US Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/
- 36. Pick a goodquestion. How would you situate it to make it most effective--both online and in-gallery?
- 37. four techniques for participatory engagement 1. ask good questions 2. design for diverse user motivation and behavior 3. support dialogue around museum content 4. move from contribution to community
- 38. what do peoplealready do in museums? explorers experience seekers rechargers facilitators professional/hobbyists
- 39. what do peoplealready do on the web?
- 40. and what dothey need to be happy? satisfying work to do the experience of being good at something time spent with people we like the chance to be part of something bigger Jane McGonigal, Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future
- 41. where does itcome together? http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/
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- 46. What does yourwebsite or project tell people about what they will get out of participating?
- 47. four techniques for participatory engagement 1. ask good questions 2. design for diverse user motivation and behavior 3. support dialogue around museum content 4. move from contribution to community
- 48. what’s a socialobject? “social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object” - Jyri Engeström, 2005 flickr
- 49. what kind ofsocial behavior makes sense to promote around your objects?
- 50. pointing Science Museum ofMinnesota
- 51. taking photos Experience Music Project
- 52. writing stories Powerhouse Museum
- 53. sharing memories Denver Art Museum
- 54. sharing experiences Chicago Children’s Museum
- 55. using familiar structures Advice, University of Washington
- 56. gaming lab.signtific.org
- 57. make it shareable Picka piece of content or experience that you would like users to be able to share with each other. Using questions, instructions, secrets, or other design tools, develop a feature set for how people can share that object, content, or experience.
- 58. four techniques for participatory engagement 1. ask good questions 2. design for diverse user motivation and behavior 3. support dialogue around museum content 4. move from contribution to community
- 59. WHICH MODEL ISRIGHT FOR YOU? contributory collaborative visitors help weave a net at sfmoma co-design of media products for smithsonian co-creative host wing luke museum community exhibit process youtube meetup at the ontario science centre
- 60. expanding participation: SoundOff case study 150 entrants 12 finalists 4 concerts 1 cd
- 61. part 1 -identifying audiences Current Program Participants Their Audiences teen bands (13-21) (don’t family who come see have tight relationship) performance/show friends who come school groups teen artists (13-17) - for the show makers, musicians On Stage Sound Off audience bands who don’t get into Sound Off SoundLab peers other teen Experience the Band - fans of the bands ensemble musicians guest events musicians out-of-school youth advisory board (13-18) one-off programs facilitators who volunteer with Sound teachers Off + other projects Affinities car guys Interests/Desires from Site personal quest for improvement meet other kids like movie buffs musicians tattoo play the music you love them/finding community finding new things you’ll fans of rock like reading graphic design/illustration playing in a band meet pros DIY music collectors meet heroes becoming pro musicians close to celebrity skateboarding behind the scenes influence people into music get scholarships to science enthusiasts history entertainment Berklee comic books specific program interest learning to play music/ artists cultivate arts be a part of the music gaming dreamers activate historic making history interest architecture/design sharing passions with people into scifi history family/friends enthusiasts hope to replicate peak experiences validating your niche
- 62. part 2 -identifying opportunities Sound Off currently... Creators: kids in bands Critics: Facebook voting, pro critics, judges Collectors: Joiners: MySpace communities around bands, Spectators: people who come to the show ADD: -open submission process online (get other bands more out there) -YAB switch from judging to press corps/critics, bloggers -open vlogger competition -oral history live with youth -tracing past bands over time -fans and bands that lose have online community to support each -monthly challenges, lightweight, write a song based on X or using -Sound Off backstage - other roles
- 63. part 3 -rolling out new services with impact assessment year 1: - digital, online submissions (private), culled by staff + youth advisory board - engage the other bands in social network around Sound Off! - light merchandise contest, gig promotion, musician meetups - youth advisory board produces journalistic content about finalists and events - live event text voting “people’s choice” by audience year 2: - digital, online submissions (public), culled by online audience, then staff + youth advisory board - social network members produce journalistic content inc. behind-the-scenes - youth advisory board manages social network - youth advisory board begins oral history live project around all-ages scene
- 64. contact me anytime nina@museumtwo.com @ninaksimon http://www.museumtwo.com slides at http://bit.ly/MWnina