TY - JOUR
T1 - Playing with words: creativity and interaction in museums and galleries
AU - Patel, Menisha
AU - Heath, Christian Consitt
AU - Luff, Paul Keith
AU - Vom Lehn, Dirk
AU - Cleverly, Jason
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - There is growing interest within museums and galleries in enabling visitors to contribute thoughts, reflections and materials and to make these available to the wider public both within the museum space and beyond. It is widely recognised that digital technologies and developments provide unprecedented opportunities to facilitate engagement and provide new and distinctive forms of participation, sociality and creativity. In this paper, we explore how visitors responded to an installation that provided the opportunity to produce and post ‘content’; content that resonated with the principal themes of the museum, and consider how the installation encouraged creativity and certain forms of sociality. In contrast to more traditional ethnographic studies of visitor behaviour, we seek to demonstrate that resources and installations designed to encourage user-generated content, demand a rather different approach to data analysis, an approach that prioritises the practices that inform the concerted production of content.
AB - There is growing interest within museums and galleries in enabling visitors to contribute thoughts, reflections and materials and to make these available to the wider public both within the museum space and beyond. It is widely recognised that digital technologies and developments provide unprecedented opportunities to facilitate engagement and provide new and distinctive forms of participation, sociality and creativity. In this paper, we explore how visitors responded to an installation that provided the opportunity to produce and post ‘content’; content that resonated with the principal themes of the museum, and consider how the installation encouraged creativity and certain forms of sociality. In contrast to more traditional ethnographic studies of visitor behaviour, we seek to demonstrate that resources and installations designed to encourage user-generated content, demand a rather different approach to data analysis, an approach that prioritises the practices that inform the concerted production of content.
U2 - 10.1080/09647775.2015.1102641
DO - 10.1080/09647775.2015.1102641
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-7775
VL - 31
SP - 69
EP - 86
JO - Museum Management and Curatorship
JF - Museum Management and Curatorship
IS - 1
ER -