This page is dedicated to what we have been up to, from conferences, presentations and workshops to news about our work. We keep this page up to date to share with you also our opinions and reading suggestions from our field of work.
It has been an honour to join the webinar series of NEMO - Network of European Museum organisations and share part of our research on the impact of Covid-19 and introduce some of the trends of our trend booklet “Museums in 2020+: The search for meaning.” With this webinar, our founder Ece has shared some data and insights about the current challenges of the new unpredictable world in which museums find themselves. With this webinar, Ece in addition has touched upon related design methods to rethink how to tackle especially the new kind of audience, hybrid context and so inform museums’ short-, mid- and long-term actions accordingly. The webinar, we aim to invite museums professionals, whether museum-leaders, curators or volunteers to ask fundamental questions that are not focused on defining an ideological museum of the future or the future of digital technologies per se, but rather reflect on the meaningful future for their museums.
Check the webinar on NEMO’s YouTube channel.
NEMO Webinar, ONLINE / Read more
We’re delighted to announce that, we’ll be in Budapest next week to join the MuseumDigit conference between 26-27 November 2019 organised @ the Hungarian National Museum.
We’ll be talking about what does being “inclusive” means for museums today, and give some practical tips on how to respond to the challenge of being an inclusive museum. Our talk is organised on the 27th of November, in the morning session.
It’s still not too late to join the conference, you can get a spot by registering here.
Check the full conference program here as well!
MuseumDigit Conference, BUDAPEST / Read more
We have had the pleasure to share our vision and plus some practical ideas with a short talk during the ICOM conference titled “Il Museo oggi. Le professioni del patrimonio culturale” (“The Museum of Today and Cultural heritage professions”) which held in Rome, last Saturday, on November 16th, during the Extraordinary Assembly of ICOM Italy.
The theme of the future of museum professionals had been to the subject of debate in ICOM lately, together with the new museum definition. In order to give space for a collective moment of debate and exchange of ideas between all members, some thematic groups raging from security to marketing, from preservation to communication were organised.
We have joined the “digital technologies” group, to discuss the skills needed and methods to be adopted in the decision making process related to museums’ digital strategies.
Here is the programme with the full list of the talks.
ICOM Italia, Roma / Read more
Beginning of this academic year EPFL+ECAL Lab, the design research centre of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland reached us out to present our insights on the theme of “activating tangible cultural heritage” through diverse technologies and forms, such as virtual reality, immersive spaces and installations for their students of Masters of Advanced Studies.
We had the pleasure to spend a one full-day with the students at end of September, first giving a short-talk and then individual feedback on their works.
Resulting of the workshop, six very different project proposals, each with an original perspective came out. It’s definitely worth to check and discover the results on this link.
Our sincerest thanks to ECAL+EPFL lab for their invitation and congrats to all students for their hard work!
EPFL+ECAL Lab, Lausanne / Read more
After a year of hard work and diligent preparation, it’s time to see the works of the winners of the Italian contest DAM “Young Designers for Italian Museums”. A dedicated exhibition will be inaugurated on the 5th of July, 2019 at 11:00 am at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
We’re very happy to bring the first prize at home and looking forward to see the works of all the other winners.
Please find the dedicated link with the details about the opening event and the exhibition.
Our sincerest thanks for all the organisers: Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Modena Province, associations Giovani d’arte and Giovani Artisti Italiani.
DAM, Inauguration of the Exhibition, Siena / Read more
We’re so happy to announce that we’ll be in Boston for the MW19, the 23rd annual MuseWeb conference, in Boston, April 2-6, 2019. On Wednesday, April 03 between 1:30pm - 4:30pm, we are offering a hands-on workshop that will help you get things done (leaner, faster and better) in your institution!
We’ll discuss, share, co-ideate about how your museum works, from your internal organisational structure to ticketing experience, how and where to innovate, from which point to start!
So, if you want to make change happen in your institution, convince your superiors or empower your staff, you should definitely be joining us!!!
We got to notice that, there is limited space available, so please book as soon as you can!
Here is our workshop, the full conference program and link to register.
See you there!
MW2019, MuseWeb conference, BOSTON / Read more
2019 has started with plenty of great news! Here is the first one:
We bring home the first prize of an Italian contest “Young Designers for Italian Museums” organised by Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism together with Modena Province, associations Giovani d’arte and Giovani Artisti Italiani for the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
The contest was about redesigning the whole experience offer of the museum both on a physical and digital level. The results will be shared in the following months with an exhibition dedicated to the works of the winners! Here is the brief list of winners.
Our congrats to all the participants, let’s continue to make design a way of life for museums!
Contest for Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena / Contest info / Ece Özdil on MiBACT
We had a wonderful year, full of new people, conversations and actions!
Thanks to all of you who have taken part of our first year, sharing our passion, work and progress!
Merry X-Mas, Buon Natale, Mutlu Yillar!
Jüniör will be at the “Crescere al Museo” conference at Musei Civici Reggio Emilia in the following days. Join us for the workshop on Saturday in reimagining the future of learning and labs for museums!
2 day public event/ Book to join!
SERVICE DESIGN DRINKS/ Read more
We’re currently renewing our website with a lot of new content. Our latest activities showed us your keen interest in knowing more about the ‘design’ and our vision. That’s why we have amplified our offers with four different workshops+design actions and plus dedicated a section to our methods+tools. Do take your time to read, for anything, we’re here ;)
FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA / Read more
Our activities during the conference won’t be limited to the 7th but also the 9th of May. We have organised a full-day workshop (ROUTE 5 - BE A MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL TODAY (10AM - 5PM)) to envision the future of museum professionals together. The activity will be held at the Café le studio, Yves Saint Laurent Museum.
WE ARE MUSEUMS 2018 / Read more
We’ll be in Marrakesh for the ‘We Are Museums conference during 7-8-9 MAY. On the 7th of MAY, we are offering a 1h serious-fun workshop with hands-on activities in discovering how service design tools and design thinking can help you think beyond the conventional approaches for creating online collections.
WE ARE MUSEUMS 2018 / Read more
