Hands working with electrical components

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 . In Oslo Dagny Stuedahl from the Department of journalism and media studies at Oslo Metropolitan University is the co-supervisor.

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.