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Collaborative designing of the digital installation "The Sound of FOLK". Photo: Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Science, identity and belonging

By Torhild Skåtun, museum educator at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and PhD

Museology

About this research project

This is a PhD research supervised by the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

Paper 1: Participation and dialogue, creative reflexivity in participatory processes.
Paper 2: Engaging through Co-design in the science museum. (forthcoming)
Paper 3: Knowledge development through co-design actions and dialogue. (forthcoming)
Paper 4: Future Workshop: a structuring tool for co-designing with young people
Podcast, co-designing partners discussing the Science, identity and belonging research project.
Final paper: Science, Identity and Belonging: Engaging through co-design with young people at a science museum: a qualitative study of process

From the autumn of 2016 until spring 2020 a collaborative partnership has been established with youths from 16 to 19 years, a cross professional team at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, an external museum researcher from Oslo Met, and university students and children aged 10 -13. In total, 22 people have been involved in this qualitative study of a co-design process.

The first series of co-design workshops led to the production of a sound-based installation, The Sound of FOLK as part of the FOLK exhibition.