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Engaging through co-design in the science museum

By Torhild Skåtun


A co-design process that holds the potential to facilitate museum engagement will be the topic of this article. In Report from a Series of Workshops Called 'Science, Identity and Belonging', During which a Group of Museum Professionals Worked Together with Young People to Co-Design A Museum Activity. The Focal Point Will Be The Way Engagement Materializes in the Meeting Between Museum and Youths in a Creative Development Process of a Digital Installation Parallel to the Making of a Temporary Exhibition.

The Co-Design Process in This Case LED to A Product; A Digital Sound Installation that complements and connects to the exhibition people - from Race Types to DNA sequences . I will explore engagement through the co-design process, looking more closely at the Challenges and Possibilities While Considering That Both the Museum Professionals and the Young People Broought with them their own engagement into the process. A Core Theme to Address Will Be The Way The Meetings Between Youths and Museum Staff Hold a Potential To Engage, and How During A Long-Term Partnership Other Relations Emerge. This will fetus an awareness about ways of programming museum collaborations with the purpose of engaging youths in design of museum Activities and Programs.

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Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.

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