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<p>Museums have always used different media to communicate, widen perspectives and bring new knowledge, but in the era of digital media, their various offerings are increasingly part of the media ecosystem. Our research interventions explored the possibility of reusing existing digitised material in a participatory setting. The aim was to explore the object-centred audience participatory method in digital settings. We held a series of digital and in-person workshops that invited the participants to “imagine” narratives about the provenance of the museum’s objects and journeys to Sweden in a playful and creative exploration. We could observe how the virtual workshop setting supported focused discussions, and allowed zooming, drawing and remixing of digital photographs to facilitate conversation. The workshop participants on-site worked with the museum objects on display to remediate them through photos, drawings, clay modelling, and writing down thoughts and questions about the objects on discussion postcards. The participants’ contributions were included in the virtual collection database (Carlotta), under the same collection as the other museum objects, making the remediation process circular. We argue that object-centred methods enable audience participation in digital media ecosystems both in museums and with other media makers.</p>
<p>The audience’s expectations and experiences from using other media bring them to the digital museum platforms with a willingness to explore, remix and integrate.</p>
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Museums have always used different media to communicate, widen perspectives and bring new knowledge, but in the era of digital media, their various offerings are increasingly part of the media ecosystem. Our research interventions explored the possibility of reusing existing digitised material in a participatory setting. The aim was to explore the object-centred audience participatory method in digital settings. We held a series of digital and in-person workshops that invited the participants to “imagine” narratives about the provenance of the museum’s objects and journeys to Sweden in a playful and creative exploration. We could observe how the virtual workshop setting supported focused discussions, and allowed zooming, drawing and remixing of digital photographs to facilitate conversation. The workshop participants on-site worked with the museum objects on display to remediate them through photos, drawings, clay modelling, and writing down thoughts and questions about the objects on discussion postcards. The participants’ contributions were included in the virtual collection database (Carlotta), under the same collection as the other museum objects, making the remediation process circular. We argue that object-centred methods enable audience participation in digital media ecosystems both in museums and with other media makers.
The audience’s expectations and experiences from using other media bring them to the digital museum platforms with a willingness to explore, remix and integrate.

Reuse and Appropriation: Remediating Digital Museum Collections and Digital Tools for a Participatory Culture in Transition

researcher at Data Society program at Malmö University

Senior Lecturer, Malmö University, Malmö University

Baltic Screen Media Review

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Museums have always used different media to communicate, widen perspectives and bring new knowledge, but in the era of digital media, their various offerings...

Reuse and Appropriation: Remediating Digital Museum Collections and Digital Tools for a Participatory Culture in Transition

Publié en ligne: 09 mai 2022

Pages: 122 - 138

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2022-0009

Mots clés
Museum objects, Audience engagement, Digital workshop, Remediation, Contact zone

© 2022 Hassan Taher et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Reuse and Appropriation: Remediating Digital Museum Collections and Digital Tools for a Participatory Culture in Transition

Publié en ligne: 09 mai 2022

Pages: 122 - 138

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2022-0009

Mots clésMuseum objects, Audience engagement, Digital workshop, Remediation, Contact zone

© 2022 Hassan Taher et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Museum objects, Audience engagement, Digital workshop, Remediation, Contact zone