This document discusses the reimagining of the Derby Silk Mill as the Museum of Making from 2015-2017. It outlines commitments of £17 million to take the concept to the next stage, and prototypes the architectural and exhibition design ideas using a human-centered design process of defining, understanding, thinking, imagining, modeling, prototyping, testing and evaluating. It emphasizes co-producing the museum and engaging people emotionally, creatively and intellectually through the collections.

1. Feeling the fear and
doing it anyway…
Hannah Fox
Director of Projects & Programmes
@hannahfox
@derbysilkmill
@derbymuseums

3. Representing the soul of the city

4. “What do
you need?”

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University of Derby… (pic of Green Lane)

7. It changed
my life.

8. think
feel
do

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Advocacy
Time & Skills
Engagement & Feedback
Resources
& Knowledge
Fundraising
Co-produced

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Human-centred, design-thinking
Define
Understand
Think
Imagine
Model
Prototype
Test
Evaluate
Produce
Share
Redefine Redefine
Design with
Empathy Take Action

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Derby Museums 2012-2015 Aims
• Establish Derby Museums Trust as a new,
independent cultural organisation.
• Instigate a plan for the full re-development
of the Silk Mill as a major visitor attraction.
• Begin an affordable redevelopment programme for
Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
• Build partnerships to support the establishment of an
international Joseph Wright Institute.
• Ensure community engagement is embedded
in all aspect of Derby Museums’ work.

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Derby Museums 2012-2015 Aims
• Establish Derby Museums Trust as a new,
independent cultural organisation.
• Instigate a plan for the full re-development
of the Silk Mill as a major visitor attraction.
• Begin an affordable redevelopment programme for
Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
• Build partnerships to support the establishment of an
international Joseph Wright Institute.
• Ensure community engagement is embedded
in all aspect of Derby Museums’ work.

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19. — C18th Derby – 1st factory,
valley that changed the world.
C19th Railways + Engineering C20th Derby – Rolls-Royce, Digital C21st Derby – No 1 Hi-tech city
Context
C18th Derby – Enlightenment,
Art, Joseph Wright of Derby

20. • 1 in 3 people living in an area regarded
as top 20% most deprived in England.
• 24.6% of children in Derby are defined
as living in poverty.
• 1 of the 6 most challenged cities in
England for social mobility.
• Adult population have poor outcomes when
compared to England as a whole.
• 63% of business have found it difficult to recruit
staff with suitable skills.
21st Century Derby

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Understand
• STEM > STEAM
• It’s all about Making…
• We need to expand perspectives
of what a museum is and can be.
• People should feel entitled
to participate.

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Redefine
How might we use the
making of the museum
as an opportunity to
experiment, involve
and enrich?

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Enable and encourage
co-production for mutual benefit.
See change as opportunity to
experiment, involve and enrich.
“Tell me and I forget, teach
me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin

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2013-2014

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2013-2014

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2013-2014

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Copyright Jill Tate

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36. Copyright Jill Tate

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How might we use the making of
the Museum of Making, to
engage people’s heads, hearts
and hands - empowering them to
see themselves as 21st century
makers, creators and innovators?
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Redefine

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INSPIRED BY THE MAKERS
OF THE PAST
Shaping the way in which
Derby is understood
and appreciated.
MADE BY THE MAKERS
OF TODAY
Pursuing mutual
relationships,
co-produced &
human-centred
EMPOWERING THE MAKERS OF
THE FUTURE
Inspiring people to see
themselves as makers,
creators and innovators.
Project principles
STEAM POWERED – Embedding the Arts in STEAM, integral to 21st century citizens

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think
feel
do
“Tell me and I forget, teach
me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
CO-PRODUCED AND HUMAN-CENTRED
2015 - Shared our approach with funders
Define
Understand
Think
Imagine
Model
Prototype
Test
Evaluate
Produce
Share
Redefine Redefine
Take
Action
Design
with
empathy

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Reimagining Derby Silk Mill
as the Museum of Making
2016-2017
Commitments of £17m.
Take concept to the next stage.

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Inspired Made Empowering

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Prototype the Museum Architectural and Exhibition ideas
How might we design
the museum spaces
using the collection?
How might we balance the
variety of different spaces
to allow adaptability?
How might we select
materials for building the
museum inside and out?
How might we refine the
design of spaces by creating
a full scale prototype?

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Notice Nature, Feel Joy
How might we co-produce our
natural history collection to
ignite curiosity and the desire
to find out more – engaging
people emotionally and
creatively as well as historically
and scientifically?

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Citizen Shift – New Citizenship project
Subject Consumer Citizen
Dependent Independent Interdependent
To For With
Religious Material Spiritual
Duty Rights Purpose
Obey Demand Participate
Receive Choose Create
Command Serve Facilitate
Radio Television Internet
Bureaucracy Hierarchy Platform
Subjective Objective Deliberative

61. “The best moments in our lives are
not the passive, receptive, relaxing
times… The best moments usually
occur if a person’s body or mind is
stretched to its limits in a voluntary
effort to accomplish something
difficult and worthwhile.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

64. Expert (n.) early 15C.,
“Person wise through experience”

65. Project
team
Restructure for
cross-discipline
working

66. “It’s easier if I
just do it myself”

67. • See change as constant.
• Ask why?
• Design with empathy, take action.
• Experiment, prototype.
• Look beyond your frame of reference.
• Raise your hand and ask for help.
• Co-produce for mutual benefit.
Habits of mind

68. “[It is]the free voluntary
associations which strengthen
civil society by creating
Habits of the Heart”
Alexis de Tocqueville 1835

69. Feel the fear and
do it anyway.

70. “We need to ask whether our own
agendas been as progressive as we
had hoped. We need the courage to
engage more deeply and more
meaningfully with communities which
appeared to have taken a step back
from us – and listen to them.”
Nat Edwards

71. “What are your
desires and needs?”

72. Thank you for listening to me.
@hannahfox
@derbysilkmill
@derbymuseums
www.derbymuseums.org
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