At Jüniör, we always want to open up a broader discussion on how cultural institutions have been changing and how we can do better. With our booklets, we aim to support people working in cultural institutions offering them a look at what are the current trends, technologies, themes and issues within the cultural sector in a short easy-to-read format.
How should our cultural institutions look like in the future? What are services they need to offer? What kind of attitudes they need to bring into their work culture? What are the skills and methods that they need to integrate into their organisation? How the future of museum workers and professionals working for cultural sector will change?
There are many questions to be answer when talking about the future of cultural institutions.
We do care about the future of cultural institutions and we want to provide inspiration and guidance to our extensive community of museum and culture workers. That’s why we publish our trend booklets: a free easy-to-read format to share our research and vision with our community. In these booklets we bring insights from cultural institutions worldwide and share inspirations, strategies and tips related to innovation in cultural sector.
With 2020, we have entered a new decade, where museums have been confronted with many difficulties: they have found themselves in a world that is totally unpredictable and changing daily with newer expectations and complicated tasks on their shoulders every day.
These difficulties, together with the questions that have arisen continuously during the past few years: ‘What is the role of a museum today?’, ‘how can we define one?’, ‘how will museums change?’ and ‘how do they have to change?’ have guided the macro trend of this booklet: The Search For Meaning. With this booklet, we aim to offer a broad view of how museums can and will discover a meaningful future for themselves.
Museums in 2020+ The Search For Meaning is our second trends booklet. The booklet offers eight trends to help museum leaders, workers and enthusiasts, to make mindful decisions, helping them to focus especially on a new kind of audience and phygital context through thinking competencies and methods of design.
Have a read and be inspired, let us know what you think!
In this booklet, we reveal eight trends focusing on the challenges that museums face in the years to come.
Each trend comes in three main sections: an intro to the trend together with case studies introducing the change related to that trend and a suggestion section explaining design actions and activities that can be used to create response to the challenge. Here is the list of trends:
The booklet is for museum-leaders, workers and enthusiasts to help them make mindful decisions, thinking about a new kind of audience and context where they can inform both your short-, mid- and long-term actions for their museum.
We believe that culture is for everyone, so everyone who loves museums, is curious about digital technologies, services and experiences and change through design can freely read it.
Ten issues in the cultural realm
The growing interest in redefining the cultural institutions, within the digital transformation of our societies, had guided the 2018 theme and ‘Museums in 2018+, Ten Essential issues in the cultural realm’ was born. In this booklet we had presented 10 essential challenges, impacting museums and their relationship with society. They were presented under three macro themes:
From collections to understanding the audience
Museums going out of the box
The New Museum Business
You can find further information on this publication on medium.
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