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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


About this research project

This is a PhD research supervised by the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.In Oslo Dagny Stuedahl from the Department of journalism and media studies at Oslo Metropolitan University is the co-supervisor.

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.



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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