Designers of the Future: Engaging children in speculation through museum experiences

Nowadays, children are growing up in a highly unstable world. In our popular, shared narrative, ‘the future’ seems to have become a synonym for socioeconomic crisis and environmental disaster. In the hugely globalized and intercommunicated reality we live in, this is a story that children can hardly stay oblivious to. A European Union-wide...

MERGE: A museum tour game for Van Abbemuseum to support explorative steps towards the cultural merge of Turkish immigrants and Dutch communities of the Netherlands

The increasing ease of mobility is progressively diluting the traditional notion of monolithic national populations confined within single countries, thereby fostering the evolution towards more diverse and multicultural societies. If we look back to the 1960s, there was a significant migration to Europe. Many people from Turkey, Morocco,...

Pedalling towards sustainable urban mobility: design of an interactive exhibit to inspire visitor's attitude transformation

Environmentalists recently attracted a lot of international attention with controversial actions, including throwing food against famous paintings in art museums. Which is worth more, art or life? The fragility of art is similar to the fragility of the earth itself. But as quickly as the bunch of climate activists appeared in all the newspapers,...

Design for transformative teen experiences at the Van Gogh Museum

This thesis is the result of a graduation project in the domain of transformative museum experiences. The project has been executed in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum (VGM) in Amsterdam with a focus on high school teenagers. The project aims to find promising ways to facilitate museum experiences for teens that are...