Abstract
The relationship of technology to museum practices is a field that continues to evolve; acknowledging the potential for generating innovative engagement with museum visitors. Engagements that will require understandings on the part of museum communication that include: content travelling across contexts, iterative participatory methods suitable for mobile social media participation, and sustainability of the media involved. In this paper we demonstrate how the use of a small-scale prototype experiment is used as the basis for generating methods in which design thinking and cultural investigation can contribute to understanding emerging literacies for museum communication design. As a team of researchers making inquiries into the role that social media can have for extending the space of museum communication, we see this rising need of understanding the cultural practices of these media as an active design-thinking problem, rife with opportunities and potential pitfalls. Opportunities to develop deep-seated investigations that lead to new knowledge and pitfalls that result in limited scope, outcome or attitude.
Keywords
Participatory design, small scale prototyping, social media, cultural heritage, urban participation, design literacies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.141
Citation
Stuedahl, D.,and Lowe, S.(2013) Mobile Museum Communication Design and new literacies, in Reitan, J.B., Lloyd, P., Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Digranes, I., & Lutnæs, E. (eds.), DRS // Cumulus: Design Learning for Tomorrow, 14-17 May, Oslo, Norway. https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.141
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The relationship of technology to museum practices is a field that continues to evolve; acknowledging the potential for generating innovative engagement with museum visitors. Engagements that will require understandings on the part of museum communication that include: content travelling across contexts, iterative participatory methods suitable for mobile social media participation, and sustainability of the media involved. In this paper we demonstrate how the use of a small-scale prototype experiment is used as the basis for generating methods in which design thinking and cultural investigation can contribute to understanding emerging literacies for museum communication design. As a team of researchers making inquiries into the role that social media can have for extending the space of museum communication, we see this rising need of understanding the cultural practices of these media as an active design-thinking problem, rife with opportunities and potential pitfalls. Opportunities to develop deep-seated investigations that lead to new knowledge and pitfalls that result in limited scope, outcome or attitude.