Embrace Digital: Recent Episodes

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This is a series that brings together different voices from museums, and experts from the industry to discuss emerging and interesting digital trends impacting the sector today. We explore inspiring examples & try to understand what digital holds for the future of museums : for their collections, for audiences and internal working cultures.

This podcast is brought to you by ICOM Germany and has been made possible with support from the Berlin State Museums [SMB].

I am your host Medhavi, and I am on a lifelong mission to make art and culture accessible & engaging for people.

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In this podcast, Franziska Mucha (POEM Fellow ) talks about participatory practices and co-creation in museums, using digital means. She shares how museums can plan such projects, what role audience motivation plays in crowdsourcing knowledge and gives relevant examples.


Episode Guest: Franziska Mucha, Fellow POEM Research Network

Episode Host : Medhavi Gandhi

Partners: ICOM Deutschland & Institute of Museum Research (The Berlin State Museums / SMB) :

Take a look here for the Episode Notes

Links to projects / people mentioned are stated below:


1) Digital City Lab [Historisches Museum Frankfurt]:

2) Minnen [Memories Collection Platform]:

3) Library of the Generations


POEM Research Network

POEM Fellows: Asnath Kambunga & Crowdsourcing researcher, Mia Ridge

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Today, digital media enables museums to reach audiences globally. The challenge however is, in building a lasting relationship with a diverse audience. In this episode, Martin Schäfer [Digital Strategy and Social Media, StadtMuseum Berlin] and Russell Dornan [Digital Content Editor, V&A Dundee] share different ways in which they deepened engagement with their audiences and built a community.

Episode notes : https://www.theheritagelab.in/museum-digital-audience-engagement/

Every week, the Embrace Digital Podcast series features voices from the museum industry to discuss interesting digital trends and inspiring examples from the sector.

Hosted by Medhavi Gandhi

Supported by : ICOM Deutschland and the Institute for Museum Research [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin].

Connect on Twitter:

Martin Schäfer : @mackflei

Russell Dornan : @RussellDornan

Medhavi: @MedhaviGandhi

ICOM Deutschland : @ICOMDeutschland

Institute for Museum Research : @museumsforscher

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Embrace Digital Project Diary : https://www.theheritagelab.in/embrace-digital/

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In this podcast, Jonas Heide Smith (head of Digital at SMK Denmark ) talks about the museum's digital strategy and approach towards embracing openness as a way to increase reach and engage audiences. This podcast is part of the EmbraceDigital series. 


Episode Guest: Jonas Heide Smith, Head of Digital at SMK Denmark

(Find him on Twitter) 

Episode Host : Medhavi Gandhi, Founder, The Heritage Lab | Researcher, Embrace Digital 

(Twitter)

Partners: ICOM Germany 

Institute of Museum Research (The Berlin State Museums / SMB)