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Innovations in Using Digital Media to Challenge Museums: A Roundtable Discussion

Join the roundtable at UoC on November 1st, 2013 with Kjetil Sandvik, discussing the evolving role of digital media in museums. Explore how audiences become co-creators, using media as tools for knowledge creation and learning. Learn about participatory social media/web 2.0 and the dynamic processes of communication. Witness how museums challenge traditional norms by displaying questions, mistakes, and engaging audiences in dialogues. Discover the dynamic nature of the field, shifting from products to processes, fixed to ongoing, and authority to collectivity.

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Innovations in Using Digital Media to Challenge Museums: A Roundtable Discussion

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  1. Digital Media Challenging Museums A short input for a roundtable discussion UsesAcross Media, UoC November 1st 2013 Kjetil Sandvik, associate professor, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, UoC

  2. Changing museums Museum 2.0: • Audiences are not just participants but co-creators through collective learning processes (uses of creative potential, focus on the experience dimension) • Media do not just serve as means for communicating knowledge, but as creative tools for knowledge creation and learning processes. • Based on a experience-focused and constructivist approach to learning and knowledge communication

  3. Challenges of digital media Participatory (social) media/web 2.0: • radical possibilities for dialogic processes, for collaboration and co-creation • Communication as dynamic processes • Fixed solutions  changeable, adaptive and user-centered solutions • Uses of web 2.0 apps mashups: combinations of cheap, effective and constantly updated and improved media technology • perpetual beta way of communication

  4. Format not just for the design process, but for ’the exhi- bitions’ itself

  5. Challenging museums • Intervening research processes and exhibition design experiments • Displayingquestions not (only) answeres • Displaying the researcher at work knowledge in the making • Displayingmistakes, flawedhypothesis, disagreements, controversies • It is all aboutengaging the audience in dialoguesaboutwhat is beingexhibited

  6. Challenges: a dynamicfield • Product  process • Fixed  continuing • Final  under construction • Authority  collectivity • Answers  questions

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