Open and Participatory Museums

Open & Participatory

Museums

Prototyping interaction design in exhibitions

Dr. Mariana SalgadoPostdoctoral researcherArki Research GroupAalto University2013

Interaction Design

ParticipatoryDesign

New Media Studies

Museology

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How to create interactive design that encourages people to participate in

exhibitions?

Sound Trace

Äänijalki (2005)

Ateneum Art Museum

Sound Trace

Mariana Salgado- Media Lab- November 2005


Conversational Map

Keskustelukartta (2005)

Kunsthalle (Taidehalli)





The Secret Life of Objects

Esineiden Salatut Elämät (2008)

Design Museum Helsinki

Mariana Salgado- Media Lab TAIK- April 2008The Secret Life of Objects

Design Research

Prototyping interaction design in exhibitions

Water collectionWe always had some for water and gas collecting at the summerhouse, starting in my childhood. No well and three kilometres to the mainland.

Mariana Salgado- Media Lab TAIK- April 2008The Secret Life of Objects

Why participative practices?

Yrjö Kukkapuro (1933-)Rocking chair “Experiment”birch laminate, tubular steel, wood, leather1982Avarte OyYrjö Kukkapuro graduated in interior architecture from the Institute for Industrial Arts in Helsinki in 1958. The basis for his design is in ergonomics. Kukkapuro has made an impressive amount of furniture for public spaces in his career. International postmodernist currents gave rise to the “Experiment” collection of furniture by Kukkapuro, first exhibited at the Milan furniture fair of 1982. The success of “Experiment” was evident in the fact of it being featured in 32 different newspapers and trade magazines.Yrjö Kukkapuro (this was a link to the designer’s company: http://www.avarte.fi/english/designers/yrjo-kukkapuro/)

Arcs and colours

Excellent chairs, cute, humorous. I fantasised about these chairs for a long time and at some point a suitable pair came. The chair is like a pet. It smiles and gestures to me like a funny rascal, in

its own way, each day. No other lounge chair does the same, but the morning starts

well when I read the newspaper in its arms and drink my morning tea in it

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HUMOR

http://www.avarte.fi/english/designers/yrjo-kukkapuro/



Spaceless space

I recently heard a lecture by a Spanish artist called Roc Pares. He has worked with the idea of a virtual void. I see a certain similarity between Kåhre’s and

Pares’ works, except that Pares works with the means of virtual reality and Kåhre’s piece is purely based on the

physical. Both works also remind me of an article “Psychology and Nothing” written by Eliot Hearst (1991, American Scientist, 7, 432-443). Hearst writes about how hard it is for us humans to think about something that “is not” and that we are programmed to deal with things that “are” and “exist.” Thinking about Kåhre’s piece, it might be that we are programmed also to perceive “what

is” and not “what is not”.

Galleria virtual: The website of Roc Pares’ work Galería Virtual.

Comment left in Conversational Map.

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AFTER-BEFORE

Finnish design inspires me whenever I buy objects. Their high quality makes me think twice before choosing an object. They are practical, sit well with furniture, and their use of materials is good. Hard to say how much I appreciate your designs.

“ Minimal

All this Finnish design makes me want to listen to minimal techno music.

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Grandmother

There is a Savoy vase in every Finnish home. The

size and colour just varies. It’s suitable for

everything: flowers, fruit and stones. It is a true Finnish classic. Original

in English.

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Aalto vase

Definitely one of the most well-known pieces of Finnish glass design in the world. I live in the U.S and have this

vase at my home in many sizes and colours, and it makes me appreciate the artistic talent we

have in Finland

“FOREIGN VIEW

This thing is very good, says an open-sea fisherman. It’s amazing how the designer has got the idea of letting water

pass through the head of the fish, thus making it wobble in a nice way that the big fish can’t resist.

Comment left at The Secret Life of Objects.

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EXPERIENCES

Anti-Ode to a Lamp (Ode to Objects)

A man invents a lampthat is not a lampHe hides the lampinside ice.I don’t understand I am already coldI want warm light, yellow and graceful

A woman invents a new lampshe places it insidethe sun.Every morning it smilesat herthrough the gap in the curtains.

Nana

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Poem made for The Secret Life of Objects.

EMOTIONS

Visitor’s comment

I have heard a story about these scissors, where the colour of their

plastic part is a result of the prototype process in which they used some

leftover pieces of plastic that happened to be orange, the orange that

afterwards was used… is that story true?


“Answer from museum’s staff

The story is true. Fiskars had made a juice extractor before that. The juice extractor used orange plastic that accidentally ended up on the scissors handles when the first syringe was chosen. Workers were involved in the decision, and the colour orange was chosen for the handles.


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DIALOGUE

Eeronauts

The furniture by Eero Aarnio has prompted a particular fan club: the “eeronauts.” All around the world, they have

incorporated his work not only into everyday life, but also into pop culture, from sci-fi to Playboy. These signs cover

magazines, videos, movies, etc.


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EXPERTISE

Mariana Salgado- Media Lab TAIK- April 2008The Secret Life of Objects, an Interactive Map of Finnish Design

CREATIVITY

How to create interactive design that encourages people to participate in

exhibitions?

Think in a participatory exhibition you have visit

In which way it was participatory? Who was invited to take part? How?

Tell to the others in the groupChoose one casePresent it

GROUP WORK

10 MIN

EXAMPLES

Työväenmuseo Werstas: http://www.werstas.fi/?q=node/803

http://www.flickr.com/groups/vangoghmuseum/

http://openexhibits.org/

Participatory practices

Open Content and Data

Create and reuse

GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

Open GLAM on kansainvälinen verkosto, joka koostuu avoimien sisältöjen ja tiedon kanssa työskentelevistä toimijoista.

http://openglam.org/ #openglam

GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

Open GLAM on kansainvälinen verkosto, joka koostuu avoimien sisältöjen ja tiedon kanssa työskentelevistä toimijoista.

http://openglam.org/ #openglamhttp://avoinglam.fi/

http://fi.okfn.org/

Support the construction of a network

Stimulate the discussion on Openness

Promote open content and legal creative

use/re-use of cultural heritage

A series of workshops and events in different regions of Finland

Promote the development of best practices

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiasma

http://www.kiasma.fi/ohjelmisto/tapahtumat-ja-luennot/wikimaraton

Retrieved from http://blog.kiasma.fi/blog/?p=1095

https://www.finna.fi/

Participative practices Open approaches

Push towards openness needs researchers + students + GLAM

Design- research on cultural organizations as a form of activism

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