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A lot of people visit museums, some do so to learn something new while others just want a nice day out. Whatever their motivations are, they’re all expecting a certain experience. However, this experience is not always completely fullfil . On the other hand, museum professionals are challenged to make exhibitions that fit the needs of their visitors and try to give them the best experience possible. They often do this without actually communicating with them, which makes their job even more challenging sometimes. With the collaboration of CREATE-IT and No More Mondays we created The Hive, a toolkit that facilitates co-creation workshops for the creation of new exhibitions between museum professionals and visitors.
This toolkit consists of a set of tools, which museum professionals need to set up their first co-creation, such as instructions, activity cards, a game board and a website. The Hive will help museum professionals to get engaged with their community and improve museum experiences.
The emergence of public screens in urban environments is linked to the commercialization of the public domain, insofar as their content is primarily ad- based. Inhabitants of cities are thus treated as consumers rather than citizens. Artists and media activists have frequently attempted to subvert this commercialized approach. In collaboration with Het Nederlands instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (the Dutch Sound and Vision Institute), this study demonstrates that, through the creation of meaningful and location-specific content on semi-public and public screens, inhabitants are motivated to become active citizens rather than passive consumers. Here, the active citizen is encouraged to have a random encounter, or conversation with another person. In this way, this study shows that screens can transform interactions in large cities in an interpersonal and refreshing way.
Play Visual aims at providing emerging musicians with tools and skills to promote themselves. By using Play Visual, artists can get inspired and build their personal brand while creating engaging visual stories.
Concept
Play Visual is a creative playground where visual storytelling is triggered and facilitated. Social media platforms have changed the way people connect, find information and entertain themselves. Users share pictures, videos and thoughts on the internet, and get constant feedback from their social network. Moreover, the proliferation of portable digital devices has enabled users to easily create and share visual stories. By using a psychological approach inspired by the notion Narrative Identity, Play Visual positions itself as a tool for creating brand identity and boosting DIY visual storytelling.
