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Thinking about Museums

thoughts on museums, content, design, and why they matter

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    • Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums: Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay
    • The distributed museum is already here–it’s just not very evenly distributed
    • Humanizing the Digital: Unproceedings from the MCN 2018 Conference
    • CODE | WORDS: Technology and Theory in the Museum
    • A Series of Epistolary Romances. The second experiment by the CODE|WORDS collective.
    • Being teachable
    • Reprogram: Technology, innovation and culture in a new era of museums
    • Firearms curation in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century maritime contexts| A comparative study
    • Looking Around vs. Looking Down: Incorporating Mobility into Your Experience Design
    • MONA: Less is More
    • The Ethics of Exhibiting Salvaged Shipwrecks
    • Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
    • So We’ve Got a Web Site, Now What?

Tag: Engagement

Engaging with “Engagement”

December 30, 2019 Ed Rodley

Happy holidays, comrades! Here we are, on the cusp of 2020, and I want to ring out the old year by reflecting on some of

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Defining “engagement”

December 4, 2019 Ed Rodley

Imagine a typical museum visitor in the act of “being engaged” by something at the museum. What are they doing? Thinking? Feeling? Can you describe what that “engagement” looks like? How can you know that visitor is engaged as opposed to confused or looking at their email? Is engagement like pornography; hard to define but you know it when you see it? I don’t think so.

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#MCN2015 recap: What does ‘digital’ mean to you?

November 15, 2015 Ed Rodley

MCN2015 was incredible. One of those life-changing, affirming, provoking sorts of days-long affairs that left me hoarse for a week after. No, really. I talked

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital

April 10, 2015 Ed Rodley

And since he was sad, and I was thinking of Ignite talks as short stories, the two ideas turned into a Raymond Carver story and I wrote down “What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital.”

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