THE MUSEUM AS AN OPEN SPACE: BETWEEN ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION Session I – Co-design: designing with the audiance

Beyond the objects housed, how can a museum attend to people, their needs and desires?
Co-design, or co-design of museum spaces and habits, questions audiences and involves various stakeholders. On this occasion, speakers will share the approaches of the international museums with which they are affiliated and how they relate to the complexity of a collective effort of rethinking processes, people, and places with empathy.
Through consultations that require time and effort, the museum body considers the relationship of audiences to enjoyment, the nature of the experience, and the content and container of the museum itself.
Widening the meshes of accessibility and inclusion at both structural and conceptual levels, therefore, requires museums to continually recalibrate their cultural offerings, listening to and thinking about an ever-widening civic representation that is open to the mutations of the future.

Keynote: Catherine Ritman Smith, Head of Learning and Engagement, Young V&A/V&A East

Speakers:
– Catherine Ritman Smith, Head of Learning and Engagement, Young V&A / V&A East
– Sofia Bilotta, MAXXI Foundation
– Nusrat Ahmed, Manchester Museum Lead Curator for South Asia Gallery


Chair: Caterina Riva, MACTE – Museum of Contemporary Art of Termoli

The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 16 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Picasso Room