Description
“A wonderful guide to the kind of agile, experimental, responsive operational strategies needed in the museum of the future.” — Elizabeth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums, on the book Making Dinosaurs Dance
“Personal and engaging, this book reveals the opportunities and surprises of working directly with museum visitors in designing new digital experiences. Refreshingly honest and practical it offers even the smallest museum insights into how to design things that visitors – even teenagers – will enjoy.” — Seb Chan, Director & CEO, ACMI, on the book Making Dinosaurs Dance
Hot off the presses from AAM, Barry Joseph’s new book – Making Dinosaurs Dance – is the foundation for this half-day workshop directed at those interested in learning new techniques for bringing digital design into museums. Making Dinosaurs Dance will take participants behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovated visitor digital engagement. Based on Barry’s six years at the landmark institution, the workshop will introduce The Six Tools of Digital Design – user research, rapid prototyping, public piloting, iterative design, youth collaboration, and teaming up – then apply them through case studies across a range of topics.
The case studies in the book include:
- Combining digital experience design with physical museum assets in a guided format, featuring Crime Scene Neanderthal (CSN), a youth co-designed and facilitated in-Hall experience that invited museum visitors to use a mobile app and other tools to investigate a science-based mystery.
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Game-based learning, featuring three case studies: a tabletop games (Pterosaurs: The Card Game), mobile games (Playing with Dinos), and commercial off-the-shelf games (Minecraft).
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Mobile augmented reality games, featuring MicroRangers, which used AR to invite visitors to shrink to microscopic size and explore the Museum to combat threats to global biodiversity.
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XR experience design, featuring case studies about 360 videos on paleontology and virtual reality projects about ocean life.
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Science visualizations, featuring Galactic Golf, an astro-visualization that addressed the topics of mass and gravity through a round of mixed reality Martian golf; interactive science visualizations that invited visitors to hold CT-scans of bat skulls in their hand; and Finding Flamingos, a youth program focused on how Conservation Biologists protect endangered flamingos through GIS mapping and predictions software.
The workshop will draw from the above case studies to illustrate The Six Tools of Digital Design and combine them with hands-on exercises to leave every participant excited to pave their own path to digital engagement.
This half-day workshop is designed for anyone looking to increase the impact and reach of digital design within museums while learning best practices for negotiating the disruptions they often bring.
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Motivated to implement and further develop their new skills
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Inspired to explore new practices within their museum
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Confident about avoiding common pitfalls
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Armed with their own personal softcover copy of the book, filled with over five dozen exercises and activities.
Barry Joseph, based in New York City, has 25+ years expertise in digital engagement in the non-profit sector, innovating solutions for learning in a digital age. Over 15 of those years were spent working with museums, such as The Field Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most notably, Joseph spent six years at the American Museum of Natural History developing and overseeing a digital learning strategy for the Education Department and leading evaluation and assessment within an internal group prototyping digital engagement with visitors within the permanent halls. Museum-related work in the past year includes support for online learning tools offered by the Natural History Museum of Utah, development of the new Brooklyn Seltzer Museum and Factory Tour, and strategic planning for a new museum dedicated to the Borscht Belt resorts. He is currently an adjunct instructor at New York University in their Learning Technology and Experience Design graduate program teaching a MUCH longer version of this workshop. Learn more at his website or on his blog.
Price includes a copy of the book
